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Year: 2021
Producers:
- Hanif Abdurraqib
- Myke Dodge Weiskopf
- Nick White
- Victoria Alejandro
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Year: 2021
Producers:
- Sam Riddell
- Jordan Gass-Pooré
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Year: 2021
Producers:
- Jason Moon
- Lauren Choolijan
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Year: 2021
Producers:
- Mozhgan Moarefizadeh
- Nicole Curby
- Michael Green
- Bec Fary
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Year: 2021
Producers:
- Heather Li
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Year: 2021
Producers:
- Heloiza Barbosa
- Valquiria Gouvea
- Paulo Pinheiro
- Diogo Saraiva
- Adam Gamwell
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Year: 2021
Producers:
- Pamela Z
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Year: 2021
Producers:
- James T. Green
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Year: 2021
Producers:
- Raymond Antrobus
- Eleanor McDowall
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Year: 2021
Producers:
- Monaea Upton
- Jen Kinney
- Ashley Cleek
- Adreanna Rodriguez
- Kate Osborn
- Adizah Eghan
- Kyle Murdoch
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Year: 2021
Producers:
- Sean Cole
How to Remember is sonically inspired by Axel's travels to Côte d'Ivoire.
Year: 2020
Producers:
- Axel Kacoutié
- Eleanor McDowall
Angelina was a journalist living in Brooklyn when she was diagnosed with ALS.
Year: 2020
Producers:
- Allison Behringer
- Hannah Harris Green
- Bethany Denton
- Caitlin Pierce
- Cassius Adair
- Myke Dodge Weiskopf
- Dara Hirsch
- Lila Hassan
- Kristen Lepore
Alvaro Enciso is a retired man who lives in Tucson, Arizona. He puts crosses in the exact places where dead migrant bodies have been found in the Sonoran desert.
Year: 2020
Producers:
- Catalina May
- Martín Cruz
- Dennis Maxwell
When Shapearl Wells's son Courtney is found outside a Chicago police station with a fatal bullet wound, Shapearl immediately distrusts the official narrative.
Year: 2020
Producers:
- Shapearl Wells
- Alison Flowers
- Bill Healy
- Sarah Geis
- Bart Warshaw
When the 1918 flu pandemic broke out, Joe Newman was 5 years old. Today, he's 107. He lives in a community for seniors in Sarasota, Fla., with his fiancée, Anita Sampson.
Year: 2020
Producers:
- Joe Richman
- Sarah Kate Kramer
- Nellie Gilles
- Deborah George
- Ben Shapiro
Songs of Speculation is a lecture that explodes into multi-form performance, calling on the body, time, and the power of music to reclaim histories forgotten or lost.
Year: 2020
Producers:
- Jillian Walker
- Ben Williams
Sarah Alli-Brown is sixteen-years-old. She’s a high school junior whose school has been shuttered for months because of the coronavirus.
Year: 2020
Producers:
- Anayansi Diaz-Cortes
- Brett Myers
- Kevin Sullivan
Dat Rona, a Black colloquialism to describe the coronavirus, was produced in 3 days to disseminate ‘Rona’ knowledge after harmful media stories began to circulate that Black people were immune to the virus.
Year: 2020
Producers:
- Janina Jeff
- Sam Riddell
- Chris Diggins
- Chad Milner
- Dr. Ashira Blazer
Concerning mental illness, toxic workplace environments, Egyptian Rat Screw, and the nature of infinity.
Year: 2020
Producers:
- Boen Wang
Saidu Tejan-Thomas is a young poet. For a long time, he had a story he needed to tell: an homage and apology to his mother.
Year: 2020
Producers:
- Saidu Tejan-Thomas Jr.
- Jay Allison
This hour, winners of our annual Third Coast/Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Competition.
Year: 2019
Producers:
- Madeleine Baran
- Samara Freemark
- Zoha Zokaei
- Honor Eastly
- Joel Werner
- Isabel Vázquez
This hour, winners of our annual Third Coast/Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Competition.
Year: 2019
Producers:
- Kathy Tu
- Tobin Low
- Shannon Heffernan
- Garth Mullins
- Sam Fenn
- Isabel Vázquez
This hour, winners of our annual Third Coast/Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Competition.
Year: 2019
Producers:
- Eleanor McDowall
- Neena Pathak
- Jazmín Aguilera
- Isabel Vázquez
This hour, winners of our annual Third Coast/Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Competition.
Year: 2019
Producers:
- Mara Lazer
- Sayre Quevedo
- Isabel Vázquez
An unexpected turn of events occurs when 15-year-old Tannaz tells the police about being sexually abused by a friend.
Year: 2019
Producers:
- Zoha Zokaei
Over the course of two decades, prosecutor Doug Evans tried the same man six times for the same crime. But that man, Curtis Flowers, maintained his innocence throughout.
Year: 2019
Producers:
- Madeleine Baran
- Samara Freemark
- Natalie Jablonski
- Rehman Tungekar
- Parker Yesko
- Will Craft
- Catherine Winter
Javier Zamora was born in El Salvador and his grandparents still live there. But visiting them didn't feel like the home he once knew.
Year: 2019
Producers:
- Sayre Quevedo
Once upon a time, Kai Wright saw a movie called Punks. A romantic comedy about black gay men, it was like nothing he'd ever seen before. But then it disappeared.
Year: 2018
Producers:
- Kathy Tu
- Tobin Low
- Matt Collette
A homosexual reflection on an effort to release ourselves from misshapen containers.
Year: 2019
Producers:
- Mara Lazer
For the last year, Shannon Heffernan has been trying to figure out how and why people in Illinois prisons are dying.
Year: 2019
Producers:
- Shannon Heffernan
In 2014, the province of British Columbia switched nearly 15,000 methadone patients to a new formulation of the drug called Methadose.
Year: 2019
Producers:
- Garth Mullins
- Sam Fenn
- Lisa Hale
- Alexander B. Kim
- Ryan McNeil
This hour, stories about family ties, love and loss.
Year: 2019
Producers:
- Leila Day
- Stephanie Rowden
- Audrey McGlinchy
- Isabel Vázquez
This week, three stories by alumni of the Third Coast Radio Residency.
Year: 2019
Producers:
- Hannah Kingsley-Ma
- James T. Green
- Erisa Apantaku
- Isabel Vázquez
This hour, journeys of discovery, from personal identity to mathematical infinity.
Year: 2019
Producers:
- Simone Polanen
- Starlee Kine
- Joel Werner
- Isabel Vázquez
This week, two very specific points on the map with two very different stories.
Year: 2019
Producers:
- Jenny Casas
- Wilson Sayre
- Robin Amer
- David Boyer
- Katie Mingle
- Isabel Vázquez
An emotional dive into the personal impact of the false missile alert that was sent out across Hawaii.
Year: 2019
Producers:
- Jazmín Aguilera
- Anna Sussman
- John Fecile
- Erika Lantz
- Eliza Smith
- Nancy López
About a year ago, producers at KPCC started discussing the inevitable major quake set to hit Los Angeles and wondered how they could get people to not just listen but really prepare. The Big One: Your Survival Guide is what they came up with.
Year: 2019
Producers:
- Arwen Champion Nicks
Sometimes, a death in the family means cousins and casseroles. And sometimes — for one reason or another — it means figuring it out on your own.
Year: 2018
Producers:
- Melanie Kruvelis
“Mihai” – a pseudonym he chose himself – has a lifelong history of drugs and psychosis.
Year: 2019
Producers:
- Wederik De Backer
A decade ago, a 22-year-old black man was killed by a white police officer at Oakland's Fruitvale BART station.
Year: 2019
Producers:
- Sandhya Dirks
A woman gives away an intimate, personal part of herself—a part of herself that she wasn’t even that crazy about to begin with: her voice. And she gives it away to a total stranger.
Year: 2017
Producers:
- Erin Anderson
This hour, a mob of rock fans and an erratic limb.
Year: 2019
Producers:
- Pat Walters
- Julia DeWitt
- Emanuele Berry
- John Roche
- Isabel Vázquez
This hour, family dramas can span across generations ...or just across the hallway.
Year: 2019
Producers:
- Micaela Blei
- Kate Montague
- Mira Burt-Wintonick
- Cristal Duhaime
- Isabel Vázquez
This hour, an unlikely therapeutic duo and a magical journey through the golden age of radio advertising.
Year: 2019
Producers:
- Natalie Kestecher
- Clive Desmond
- Isabel Vázquez
A bonafide Third Coast tradition, this session - hosted by AIR (Association of Independents in Radio) - pulls back the curtain on one of the most difficult and important skills every producer needs to master: how to pitch...
Year: 2019
Individual podcasters working with slim budgets and strained resources share how they create their best work while trying to grow audiences and raise money, often while holding down another full time job...
Year: 2018
This hour, what happens when a relationship from your past returns unexpectedly and pulls you back in time?
Year: 2019
Producers:
- April Dembosky
- Isabel Vázquez
This week, all stories - even stories about Dunkin' Donuts - are about power.
Year: 2019
Producers:
- Sandhya Dirks
- Chenjerai Kumanyika
- Isabel Vázquez
Today we go from the pentagon to prison to philosophical musings about the sweet sound of the snow shovel.
Year: 2018
Producers:
- Audrey Quinn
- Earlonne Woods
- Nigel Poor
- Antwan Williams
- Sean Hurley
- Dennis Funk
- Isabel Vázquez
This hour, winners of our annual Third Coast/Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Competition. Featuring...
Year: 2018
Producers:
- Phoebe Wang
- Nigel Poor
- Earlonne Woods
- Connie Walker
- Marnie Luke
- Jennifer Fowler
- Sayre Quevedo
- Adizah Eghan
- Anna Sussman
- Shaina Shealy
- Jonathan Jones
- Isabel Vázquez
This hour, winners of our annual Third Coast/Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Competition. Featuring...
Year: 2018
Producers:
- Andrew Marantz
- Sarah Lustbader
- Annie Brown
- Nanna Hauge Kristensen
- Jonathan Zenti
- Will Evans
- Alyssa Jeong Perry
- Sammy Mack
- Sharon Mashihi
- Isabel Vázquez
Two lovers share an intimate conversation on the eve of their breakup, exploring loneliness and intimacy.
Year: 2018
Producers:
- Sayre Quevedo
Where is Cleo? It’s a mystery her family has been trying to unravel for decades after the young Cree girl was apprehended by child welfare workers in Saskatchewan, Canada in the 1970’s.
Year: 2018
Producers:
- Connie Walker
- Heather Evans
- Mieke Anderson
- Jennifer Fowler
- Marnie Luke
During 2017, a team of Snap Judgment producers followed every homicide in Oakland, CA for the entire year.
Year: 2018
Producers:
- Adizah Eghan
- Anna Sussman
- Shaina Shealy
- Jonathan Jones
Meat podcast’s host Jonathan Zenti is an overweight man (technically “obese").
Year: 2017
Producers:
- Jonathan Zenti
In her first radio piece, Phoebe visits Christians from her past and tries to understand whether queer people and homophobic Christians can have meaningful relationships.
Year: 2018
Producers:
- Phoebe Wang
Ear Hustle is a unique creative partnership between Earlonne Woods, who is incarcerated at San Quentin State Prison, and outside collaborator Nigel Poor. Together, along with other men at the prison, they produce stories about daily life behind the walls.
Year: 2018
Producers:
- Earlonne Woods
- Nigel Poor
Since its founding 15 years ago, Tesla has become one of the most valuable car companies in the country. Tesla is worth tens of billions of dollars, and its all-electric cars have achieved cult status among enthusiasts.
Year: 2018
Producers:
- Will Evans
- Alyssa Jeong Perry
When police showed up to question John Thompson, he was worried that he had sold drugs to an undercover cop.
Year: 2018
Producers:
- Andrew Marantz
- Sarah Lustbader
- Katherine Wells
Sharon is a weirdo and refuses to conform to cultural standards. Her mom does not approve.
Year: 2017
Producers:
- Sharon Mashihi
For most of the past decade, if a child or teenager got shot in Miami–Dade County, they would be taken to one place: the Ryder Trauma Center at Jackson Memorial Hospital.
Year: 2018
Producers:
- Sammy Mack
The American-led battle against the Islamic State has been hailed as the most precise air campaign in history. But its airstrikes have killed far more Iraqi civilians than anyone has acknowledged.
Year: 2017
Producers:
- Annie Brown
A bonafide Third Coast tradition, this session - hosted by AIR (Association of Independents in Radio) - pulls back the curtain on one of the most difficult and important skills every producer needs to master: how to pitch...
Year: 2019
This hour we’re all about honesty. An honest look at fat, and an honest answer to this burning question, “What are the real lyrics to ‘Louie Louie’????”
Year: 2018
Producers:
- Jonathan Zenti
- David Weinberg
- Nick White
- Myke Dodge Weiskopf
- Dennis Funk
This hour, a single commercial that ran for twenty-five years and two women who’ve been running from each other for even longer.
Year: 2018
Producers:
- Cher Vincent
- Brittany Luse
- Eric Eddings
- Sharon Mashihi
- Dennis Funk
This hour, we go into a hypnotherapists office and come out with a story of international intrigue.
Year: 2018
Producers:
- Sarah Geis
- Dennis Funk
Today we go back in time to try and heal old wounds and revisit history.
Year: 2018
Producers:
- Jonathan Goldstein
- Wendy Dorr
- Kalila Holt
- Chris Neary
- Arwen Champion Nicks
- Dennis Funk
This hour, we trot across middle America, with a story from a Nashville neighbourhood, and a Missouri payphone that won’t stop ringing.
Year: 2018
Producers:
- Meribah Knight
- Emerald O'Brien
- Laura Barton
- Dennis Funk
This hour, a deep dive into the anthem of the Confederacy, two different kinds of waves and a modern take on Romeo & Juliet.
Year: 2018
Producers:
- Chris Neary
- Jack Hitt
- Chenjerai Kumanyika
- Adriene Lilly
- Mira Burt-Wintonick
- Cristal Duhaime
- Dennis Funk
- Saidu Tejan-Thomas Jr.
This hour, the most famous chord in pop music, swimming pools, skateboarders and more!
Year: 2018
Producers:
- Avery Trufelman
- Joel Werner
- Miyuki Jokinranta
- Dennis Funk
This hour more of our faves, including Gloria Gaynor, a seventeen year-old retiree, and two spoofs: one microbiological and one murderous.
Year: 2018
Producers:
- Katy Yeiser
- Fran Hoepfner
- Ryan Staples
- David Sidorov
- Jess Shane
- Devon Strolovitch
- Mira Burt-Wintonick
- Cristal Duhaime
- Dennis Funk
This hour, a teenage taxidermist, a community of medical migrants who settled in Snowflake, Arizona, and a day in the life of a sacred cow.
Year: 2018
Producers:
- Pejk Malinovski
- Rachel Matlow
- Delaney Hall
- Dennis Funk
This hour: lawyers-turned-pinball wizards, two extraordinary minds meeting in a field of poetry and, forty years after the phrase was coined, the skinny on 420.
Year: 2018
Producers:
- Sarah Geis
- Phoebe Judge
- Lauren Spohrer
- Martin Johnson
- Dennis Funk
This hour an unlikely best-seller, a colorful hero and the legends of burlesque.
Year: 2018
Producers:
- Sam Kim
- Natalie Kestecher
- Steve Urquhart
- Dennis Funk
How was President Barack Obama shaped by his years in Chicago as a community organizer turned politician?
Year: 2018
Producers:
- Colin McNulty
This hour, three stories from the annals of analog.
Year: 2018
Producers:
- David Waters
- Joe Decault
- Damon Krukowski
- Max Larkin
- Ian Coss
- Dennis Funk
The abundance and popularity of true-crime podcasts meant the time had come (and gone, and come again) for a really hard look in the mirror. The Onion and Onion Public Radio bravely rose to the challenge!
Year: 2018
Producers:
- Katy Yeiser
- Fran Hoepfner
- Ryan Natoli
- David Sidorov
This hour, we remember the audio work of two brilliant producers who recently passed away — Jesse Cox & Joe Frank.
Year: 2018
Producers:
- Jesse Cox
- Joe Frank
- Belinda Lopez
- Jessica Bineth
- Dennis Funk
Sharon calls herself a weirdo and refuses to conform to cultural standards. Her mom does not approve. Winner of the TC/RHDF 2018 Best Documentary: Silver Award.
Year: 2018
Producers:
- Sharon Mashihi
This hour, we look back on some of our favorite moments from the past 14 years of Re:sound .
Year: 2018
Producers:
- Katia Dunn
- Roman Mars
- Delaney Hall
- Katie Mingle
- Dennis Funk
The Promise is a limited-run series from Nashville Public Radio about life in James Cayce Homes, a public housing development smack in the middle of a city on the rise.
Year: 2018
Producers:
- Meribah Knight
A bonafide Third Coast tradition, this session pulls back the curtain on one of the most difficult and important skills every producer needs to master: how to pitch...
Year: 2017
Producers:
- Leila Day
- Shereen Marisol Meraji
- Millie Jefferson
- Sruthi Pinnamaneni
Joe Frank's Dreamers is more like an M.C Escher drawing than a traditional tale and leaves you questioning the blurry line between dreams and reality.
Year: 2012
Producers:
- Joe Frank
In Joe Frank's imagined world, a father and son conduct a conversation that appears to center around certain, tangible topics. But it's actually a searing and candid examination of their relationship -- no holds barred.
Year: 2018
Producers:
- Joe Frank
Eleanor needs a family -- but the only family she had, her ex-husband Arthur, doesn't really need her anymore.
Year: 1987
Producers:
- Joe Frank
Lines form around the block for the world's most popular suicide spot.
Year: 2000
Producers:
- Joe Frank
Joe Frank, master of late night radio, assembled this piece: a phone conversation between himself and a cranky minister.
Year: 2000
Producers:
- Joe Frank
"Whatever tragedies might befall you, you can always right away think, 'well that would make a great story for radio!'"
Year: 2018
Producers:
- Terry Gross
- Joe Frank
Joe Frank, the original radio maverick, is known for leaving listeners more than a bit uncomfortable.
Year: 2000
Producers:
- Joe Frank
This hour we're going behind-the-scenes at two top podcasts: The Daily and 99% Invisible .
Year: 2018
Producers:
- Lisa Tobin
- Michael Barbaro
- Delaney Hall
- Dennis Funk
This hour, Third Coast’s take on the holidays.
Year: 2017
Producers:
- Gwen Macsai
- John Biewen
- Ben Manilla
- Helen Zaltzman
- Stephanie Foo
- Cathy FitzGerald
- Dennis Funk
A car is a classic place to realize: "oh, I’m lost."
Year: 2017
Producers:
- James Spring
Karen's dad wanted to pass on his curiosity and his faith to his seven children. Karen inherited that curiosity, but sharing his faith is another story.
Year: 2017
Producers:
- Karen Duffin
One minute, snatched from a Chanukah party in 1992. Gwen Macsai's party, to be exact.
Year: 2017
Producers:
- Dennis Funk
Producer Jonathan Goldstein made every girl he ever dated watch the home movie of his family's Rosh Hashanah dinner he made when he was 17.
Year: 2002
Producers:
- Jonathan Goldstein
This hour, some of the winners of our annual Third Coast/Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Competition, including the Best Documentary: Gold Award winner.
Year: 2017
Producers:
- Rosa Gollan
- Dennis Maxwell
- Hillary Frank
- Kristen Clark
- Abigail Keel
- Brian Reed
- Julie Snyder
- Tracy Mumford
- Hans Buetow
- Riham Feshir
- Jon Collins
- Dennis Funk
This hour, some of the winners of our annual Third Coast/Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Competition
Featuring...
Year: 2017
Producers:
- Laura Irving
- Ike Sriskandarajah
- John Fecile
- Steven Jackson
- Lizzie Schiffman Tufano
- Nick van der Kolk
- Jonathan Goldstein
- Wendy Dorr
- Chris Neary
- Kalila Holt
- Noel Anaya
- Brett Myers
- Youth Radio
- Sarah Kate Kramer
- Joe Richman
- Dennis Funk
This hour, we're diving deep into the strange, beautiful world of modern music composition.
Year: 2017
Producers:
- Alex Overington
- Dennis Funk
Sound artist and designer Stephan Moore demonstrates his approach to sound design.
Year: 2017
This hour, what we see - and what we want to see - when we gaze into our reflections in the mirror.
Year: 2017
Producers:
- Cathy FitzGerald
- Rebecca Hertz
- Lea Redfern
- Isabel Vázquez
The Daily podcast has brought rich sound production and narrative storytelling together with daily news and New York Times journalism.
Year: 2017
Often, the first question a show or editor will ask you when you pitch them an amazing story is whether your subject is "a good talker."
Year: 2017
This hour, amateur detectives, spiritual revelations and other stories of dogged perseverance.
Year: 2017
Producers:
- Matt Largey
- Phoebe Judge
- Lauren Spohrer
- Karen Duffin
- Dennis Funk
S-Town is hard to describe. It’s a podcast that starts as a traditional investigation into corruption and wrongdoing in rural Alabama.
Year: 2017
Producers:
- Brian Reed
- Julie Snyder
On July 6, 2016, Philando Castile was pulled over by Officer Jeronimo Yanez for a broken brake light. 74 seconds later, Yanez fired seven shots.
Year: 2017
Producers:
- Tracy Mumford
- Hans Buetow
- Riham Feshir
- Jon Collins
For some friends there's no subject too secret, or content too confronting. Winner of the TC/RHDF 2017 Best New Artist Award.
Year: 2017
Producers:
- Rosa Gollan
As the Iowa caucuses approached in February of 2016, Donald Trump’s political campaign was gaining traction with voters. One major theme became clear: fear.
Year: 2017
Producers:
- Ike Sriskandarajah
It’s sometimes said you’re never too old to learn something new but is that really sensible advice?
Year: 2017
Producers:
- Laura Irving
In a country where women’s lives are intensely restricted, Majd Abdulghani dreams of becoming a scientist. Meanwhile, her parents want to arrange her marriage.
Year: 2017
Producers:
- Sarah Kate Kramer
- Joe Richman
For much of Dennis Maxwell’s childhood, his father was living in exile, communicating with the family via cassette tapes.
Year: 2017
Producers:
- Dennis Maxwell
20 years ago, Gregor lent some CDs to a musician friend. The CDs helped make him a famous rockstar.
Year: 2017
Producers:
- Jonathan Goldstein
- Chris Neary
- Wendy Dorr
- Kalila Holt
Days after his 21st birthday, Noel Anaya had one final hearing before aging out of California’s foster care system, and he didn’t want to go through it alone.
Year: 2017
Producers:
- Youth Radio
- Noel Anaya
- Brett Myers
When Mike comes home, his family is faced with a new reality and an impossible choice.
Year: 2017
Producers:
- John Fecile
- Steven Jackson
- Lizzie Schiffman Tufano
After adopting their niece and nephew, Trystan -- a transgender man -- tells his partner Biff that he wants to expand their family and conceive a baby together. Which they do.
Year: 2017
Producers:
- Hillary Frank
- Abigail Keel
- Kristen Clark
We're living through a profoundly unsettled time, both politically and culturally, and a lot of journalists are asking, "how exactly did we get... here?"
Year: 2017
Terrible, Thanks for Asking is a podcast that tells stories about the parts of life that hurt - the parts we're usually told to get through with quiet determination.
Year: 2017
Producers:
- Nora McInerny
- Hans Buetow
After a lifetime in the system, Noel Anaya got unprecedented permission from family court to record the hearing where he’d age out of foster care--and worked with Youth Radio to, in his words, “blow it up on NPR.”
Year: 2017
This hour, we dive into the audio features of the multi-talented musician and poet, Phil Smith.
Year: 2017
Producers:
- Phil Smith
- Dennis Funk
This hour, we’re sharing a few of Third Coast’s favourite stories that didn’t quite fit the mold of past episodes.
Year: 2017
Producers:
- Gideon Brower
- Nick White
- Jaye Kranz
- Mad Genius
- Ross Sutherland
- Kate Sweeney
- Dennis Funk
A bonafide Third Coast tradition, this session pulls back the curtain on one of the most difficult and important skills every producer needs to master: how to pitch...
Year: 2017
Madeleine Baran and Samara Freemark of In the Dark, love the intimacy of radio and the power it has to transport us into other people’s lives...
Year: 2017
Imagine opening your work to the possibilities of drama and fiction that can bring a rich, more expansive story to life.
Year: 2017
There’s an old journalism adage that says “if your mother says she loves you, check it out.” This American Life’s Christopher Swetala is the fact-checker who calls her to ask, and then let’s you know if it’s true… or not.
Year: 2017
Great tracking is the difference between a piece that immediately moves you and one you immediately forget.
Year: 2017
Gwen Macsai comes clean with a very colorful secret... about her dad.
Year: 2012
Producers:
- Gwen Macsai
- Roman Mars
On The New York Times ' podcast The Daily , host Michael Barbaro dives into one critical story of the day with a Times’ reporter who knows it best.
Year: 2017
Producers:
- Andy Mills
- Rukmini Callimachi
This hour the symphonic textures of our everyday lives.
Year: 2017
Producers:
- Tim Hinman
- Dennis Funk
On June 16, 2017, one headline dominated news across the United States: a Minnesota jury had found officer Jeronimo Yanez not guilty in the shooting death of Philando Castile.
Year: 2017
Producers:
- Tracy Mumford
- Riham Feshir
In June of 2017, Third Coast hosted a frank discussion about what it takes to make it in today’s podcast landscape, featuring: Jenna Weiss-Berman (Pineapple Street Media), Alex Blumberg (Gimlet Media), N’Jeri Eaton (NPR) and Julie Shapiro (Radiotopia).
Year: 2017
This hour, stories that grab hold of our expectations and smash the binary.
Year: 2017
Producers:
- Judy Campbell
- Amy Standen
- Kaitlin Prest
- Hillary Frank
- Dennis Funk
This hour two stories about what remains after the fighting stops.
Year: 2017
Producers:
- Malcolm Gladwell
- Mia Lobel
- Roxanne Scott
- Jacob Smith
- Anik See
- Dennis Funk
"We started with Cellies because we felt that people probably can’t relate to prison but they can definitely relate to a roommate, especially a roommate from hell." Earlonne Woods, co-host of Ear Hustle .
Year: 2017
Producers:
- Earlonne Woods
- Antwan Williams
- Nigel Poor
Bartolo crossed the U.S. border alone… when he was just 16 years old.
Year: 2017
Producers:
- Erika Beras
This hour, stories dedicated to our furry and not-so-furry friends.
Year: 2017
Producers:
- Damiano Marchetti
- PJ Vogt
- Alex Goldman
- Jody Avirgan
- Jennifer Wing
- Sean Cole
- Sook-Yin Lee
- Veronica Simmonds
- Elisa Shoenberger
- Dennis Funk
On April 11, 2017, Third Coast held a public discussion in Chicago to discuss S-Town , the most-buzzed about podcast of the year, from Serial Productions and This American Life .
Year: 2017
Producers:
- Dennis Funk
- Johanna Zorn
- Maya Goldberg-Safir
Nancy is the inspiration of bi-coastal friends who met at the Transom Story workshop, and knew they wanted to make an LGBTQ podcast together.
Year: 2017
Producers:
- Kathy Tu
- Tobin Low
This hour, Mother’s Day, in all its beautiful, complicated glory.
Year: 2017
Producers:
- Francesca Panetta
- Lucy Greenwell
- Nate DiMeo
- Stacia Brown
- Tally Abecassis
- Dennis Funk
Bogalusa, Louisiana is home to a forgotten chapter of civil-rights history that is still very much alive.
Year: 2017
Producers:
- Eric Eddings
- Pat Walters
This hour stories that dive below the surface to help us understand issues of race, the environment and immigration.
Year: 2017
Producers:
- John Biewen
- Brooke Gladstone
- Delaney Hall
- Roman Mars
- Dennis Funk
The Ivory Billed Woodpecker was thought to be extinct until 2004, when it was rediscovered near the small town of Brinkley, Arkansas.
Year: 2017
Producers:
- Elizabeth Meister
- Dan Collison
On January 27, 2017, Donald Trump's executive order closed U.S. borders to citizens of seven majority-Muslim nations. Some of the people locked out were already on their way... mid-flight.
Year: 2017
Producers:
- Zoe Chace
This hour redefinition, reflection... and the new you.
Year: 2017
Producers:
- Sophie Townsend
- Mira Burt-Wintonick
- Cristal Duhaime
- Nancy López
- James Spring
- Alison Broverman
- Veronica Simmonds
- Dennis Funk
Some animals might run faster, but none run more beautifully.
Year: 2011
Producers:
- Gwen Macsai
- Katie Mingle
"What does it mean to be a woman? This is a trick question."
Year: 2017
Producers:
- Stacia Brown
This hour, “I do” or “do I?” the calculus for marriage, for better and for worse.
Year: 2017
Producers:
- Sarah Kate Kramer
- Joe Richman
- Andrea Silenzi
- Yenting Hsu
- Dennis Funk
On February 15, 2014 Richard Simmons didn’t show up to teach the exercise class he had led for 40 years - and he hasn't been seen in public since.
Year: 2017
Producers:
- Henry Molofsky
- Dan Taberski
This hour we’re coming to you from inside the Third Coast Institute of Sound — a fictional museum we’ve dreamed up where all of the exhibits and artifacts are dedicated to things that make sound and noise.
Year: 2017
Producers:
- Victoria Ferran
- Delaney Hall
- Roman Mars
- Joan Webber
- Phil Smith
- Dennis Funk
Every year on the day after Christmas, children of divorced parents are shuttled across the United States, from one parent to the other.
Year: 2001
Producers:
- Susan Burton
When the Children's Holocaust Education Center in Tokyo acquired Hana Brady's suitcase, all they knew was that Hana was born in Czechoslovakia in 1931 and died at Auschwitz at age 13.
Year: 2001
Producers:
- Karen Levine
In 1993, LeAlan Jones (age 13) and Lloyd Newman (age 14) collaborated with public radio producer David Isay to create an audio diary of life on Chicago's South Side.
Year: 1993
Producers:
- David Isay
This is a story about some little kids and a big idea.
Year: 2017
Producers:
- Linda Lutton
You have to give it to some elected representatives — they really will respond to the letters you send.
Year: 2014
Producers:
- Anna Sale
This hour, rabbit holes — stories that start exploring one small thing and unexpectedly end up telling a much richer story.
Year: 2017
Producers:
- Phoebe Judge
- Lauren Spohrer
- PJ Vogt
- Alex Goldman
- Alex Blumberg
- Dennis Funk
Three decades ago, American hypnotist Larry Garrett committed himself to abstaining from the news.
Year: 2017
Producers:
- Sarah Geis
- Nick van der Kolk
This hour the unexpected and inexplicable.
Year: 2017
Producers:
- Jonathan Goldstein
- Sally Herships
- Dennis Funk
This hour we're featuring an episode of our brand new podcast — the Third Coast Pocket Conference .
Year: 2016
Producers:
- Cathy FitzGerald
- Dennis Funk
A bonafide Third Coast tradition, this session pulls back the curtain on one of the most difficult and important skills every producer needs to master: how to pitch a story.
Year: 2016
This hour we're listening to some of the winners of our annual documentary competition.
Year: 2016
Producers:
- Hillary Frank
- Abigail Keel
- Thomas Arent Andersen
- Tim Hinman
- Emily Forman
- Celeste Wesson
- Rainy
- Courtney Stein
- Mitra Kaboli
- Kaitlin Prest
- Dennis Funk
This hour we're listening to some of the winners of our annual documentary competition.
Year: 2016
Producers:
- Rachel Matlow
- Jamil
- Lindsey Smith
- Sarah Hulett
- Sasha Khokha
- Bernice Yeung
- Daffodil Altan
- Samantha Broun
- Jay Allison
- Dennis Funk
This hour the life and AIDS reporting of New York Times reporter Jeffrey Schmalz.
Year: 2016
Producers:
- Kerry Donahue
- Samuel Freedman
- Sara Burningham
- Eric Marcus
- Dennis Funk
This hour people trying their best — and sometimes failing miserably — to make a connection.
Year: 2016
Producers:
- Yowei Shaw
- John Biewen
- Mira Burt-Wintonick
- Cristal Duhaime
- Davey Kim
- Dennis Funk
When 11-year-old Jacob Wetterling disappeared in 1989, local Minnesota police seemed determined to crack the case. Instead, it took them 27 years.
Year: 2016
Producers:
- Madeleine Baran
- Samara Freemark
- Natalie Jablonski
From the 2016 Third Coast Conference... celebrated author, filmmaker and radio journalist Alex Kotlowitz talks about the power of a finely crafted intimate narrative.
Year: 2016
This hour we're going on three soundwalks that meander at the pace of real life.
Year: 2016
Producers:
- Aaron Henkin
- Wendel Patrick
- Susanna Grant
- Jo Morris
- Josie Holtzman
- Isaac Kestenbaum
- Joaqlin Estus
- Dennis Funk
You’re sent to cover breaking news – a natural disaster or a large-scale accident or crime. You don’t have much time, or much warning. How do you bring back sound-rich, interesting tape, that makes listeners perk up their ears?
Year: 2016
Thousands of office janitors work at night, cleaning up our work spaces after we go home. Many are immigrants – some undocumented – and many are women. With these conditions, they are particularly vulnerable to sexual violence.
Year: 2016
Producers:
- Bernice Yeung
- Sasha Khokha
- Daffodil Altan
When Rainy was 17, she met a producer named Courtney Stein from WNYC’s Radio Rookies.
Year: 2016
Producers:
- Courtney Stein
- Rainy
Thirteen years ago, in Viborg, Denmark, lived two young men with the same name: Thomas Andersen.
Year: 2016
Producers:
- Thomas Arent Andersen
On August 1, 2015 Glendale Police Officer Eric Guse received a call about a carjacking that would change his life.
Year: 2016
Producers:
- Emily Forman
- Celeste Wesson
What would you do if your tap water turned brown?
Year: 2016
Producers:
- Lindsey Smith
- Sarah Hulett
The story of a terrible crime and everything that followed.
Year: 2016
Producers:
- Samantha Broun
- Jay Allison
Mariya Karimjee was a teenager in Texas when she first confronted her mother about the genital cutting she'd undergone as a child in Pakistan.
Year: 2016
Producers:
- Kaitlin Prest
- Mitra Kaboli
- Mariya Karimjee
For most of his life, comedian W. Kamau Bell assumed his single mom never had sex after she made him.
Year: 2016
Producers:
- Hillary Frank
- Abigail Keel
A spare and gripping account of one family's journey fleeing violence in Afghanistan with his family.
Year: 2016
Producers:
- Jamil
- Jamil
"If you want to talk to me when I'm dead, go to the bench."
Year: 2016
Producers:
- Rachel Matlow
This hour we're featuring some of our favourite entries to the 2016 ShortDocs Challenge!
Year: 2016
Producers:
- Maya Goldberg-Safir
- La Cosa Preziosa
- Garrett Kling
- Stephanie Rowden
- Jennifer Metsker
- Michelle Macklem
- Peregrine Andrews
- Geoff Marsh
- Tree Mabry
- Dear Deer Face Collective
- Geoff McQueen
- Regina Botros
- Sam Wemmer
- Belle Wemmer
- Todd Wemmer
- Dennis Funk
Sylvia Ryerson works with family members of those incarcerated in Virginia supermax prisons to capture the sounds, voices & music of home - to be broadcast directly into the prisons.
Year: 2016
Producers:
- Sylvia Ryerson
On this episode of Re:sound, we're featuring an audio postcard from the Restorative Radio Project plus an interview with the series' producer, Sylvia Ryerson.
Year: 2016
Producers:
- Sylvia Ryerson
In this session, Nikole Hannah-Jones (The New York Times) and Chana Joffe-Walt (This American Life) talk about how to build a story structure that will make listeners care about even the most familiar, entrenched social problems.
Year: 2016
For five years, Sophie Harper recorded nearly every phone call, chat with friends, even her visit to the fertility clinic.
Year: 2016
Producers:
- Sophie Harper
For some people, making great radio is easy. Ben Calhoun has no idea what those people are talking about! For him, making radio is hard, beset by self-doubt -- and he finds it’s often easy to get stuck.
Year: 2016
In this session for editors - or anyone who wants to help someone else shape a story – Gimlet Media’s Jorge Just explores the delicate art of making good things better.
Year: 2016
It’s becoming more common for podcast producers to work with composers to create an original soundtrack. At this session, producer Michael May and composer/producer Nick DePrey share their techniques for bringing a piece to life with music and sound design.
Year: 2016
The Storymakers project elicits conversations about race and class that are candid, complicated, and as intimate as eavesdropping on someone else's dinner conversation.
Year: 2016
Producers:
- John Biewen
- Courtney Smith
With the ink on the ballots still wet, Third Coast dives into the past year of political reporting. How were journalists most - and least - successful covering the presidential election and its voters? And: where do we go from here?
Year: 2016
A bonafide Third Coast tradition, this session pulls back the curtain on one of the most difficult and important skills every producer needs to master: how to pitch a story.
Year: 2016
This hour, the story of how a one event affected a woman, her family and the criminal justice system.
Year: 2016
Producers:
- Samantha Broun
- Jay Allison
- Dennis Funk
Danish-based producer Tim Hinman, of the podcast Third Ear, finds inspiration for his exquisite sound design at the movies, and in this session he shares how it’s done.
Year: 2016
This hour, the suits we wear and the impressions we make.
Year: 2016
Producers:
- Luke Malone
- Delaney Hall
- Dennis Funk
The world of podcasting has become a crowded one. With a bevy of competing styles and purviews, having a unique voice is an increasingly valuable commodity... both artistically and financially.
Year: 2016
Can a documentary make you dance? Turn you on? Make you jump in fear? We get under the skin of documentary's visceral possibilities, exploring how we edit to impact the listener's body as much as their mind.
Year: 2016
Audie Cornish and Sean Cole came up in radio together — smoking on the front steps of WBUR in Boston, puzzling over stories. Now Audie is a co-host of NPR's All Things Considered and Sean is a producer at This American Life .
Year: 2016
What separates a “good” program from a “great” program is often the clarity of its vision: what is the show and who is it trying to speak to?
Year: 2016
You don’t want your audience to listen half-heartedly – you want them to be so deeply engaged, they’re a little surprised when they bump down to earth at the end.
Year: 2016
Reveal producers Ike Sriskandarajah and Laura Starecheski will show you how they create gripping radio out of stacks of documents and endless columns of numbers.
Year: 2016
A session about the joy and fear of pursuing stories without any idea of how they're going to succeed, or if they're going to succeed at all.
Year: 2016
This hour, one man who needs to devour as much air as he can and another who's at his best while holding his breath.
Year: 2016
Producers:
- Neil Sandell
- Hana Walker-Brown
- Inge Hoonte
- Dennis Funk
Mary Going runs Saint Harridan, a company that makes custom suits catering to butch women and trans men. Her fans are enthusiastic and dedicated, her products are selling out... and she can barely pay her rent.
Year: 2016
Producers:
- Luke Malone
This hour audio air conditioning — we’re turning down the thermostat and ushering in stories that give us the chills.
Year: 2016
Producers:
- Nate DiMeo
- Jennifer Kingsley
- Peter Frick-Wright
- Robbie Carver
- Gwen Macsai
- Dennis Funk
"I want to turn you inside out and fold you into a tiny square..." Sometimes the word 'love' just doesn't sum up how we feel about someone.
Year: 2016
Producers:
- Mira Burt-Wintonick
- Cristal Duhaime
This hour, uninvited guests like old lovers, irrational fears and the annoying habits that keep us up at night.
Year: 2016
Producers:
- Kaitlin Prest
- Katie Mingle
- Roman Mars
- Davey Kim
- Natalie Kestecher
- Dennis Funk
Springtime teases awake a hibernating soul in order to experience it's holy wonders.
Year: 2016
Producers:
- Sara Curtis
A woman in a hurry seeks refuge from a storm and finds something in common with the motel attendant.
Year: 2016
Producers:
- Marie Lovejoy
How do we reconcile ourselves to a love we'll never consummate?
Year: 2016
Producers:
- Moira Donovan
A thought experiment and an anecdote come together to illuminate the challenges of cross-cultural engagement, particularly in conservation work.
Year: 2016
Producers:
- James Perla
A paddle down the Red Deer River in Canada's Badlands leads to a reflection on past worlds and the mysteries nature keeps from us.
Year: 2016
Producers:
- Molly Segal
A man returns, victorious, from the hunt. Curious onlookers react to the killing. But they're not all looking at the same animal.
Year: 2016
Producers:
- Hannah Colton
In 1961 during the fascist regime in Portugal, a group of political prisoners escape from a fortress prison in a bullet proof Chrysler Imperial - the car that belonged to the dictator himself.
Voiceover by Jay Buettner; Additional voice by Carlos Patrão.
Year: 2016
Producers:
- Carlo Patrao
As she takes the train home from Penn Station, one anonymous woman gets an uncomfortable surprise.
Voice actor: Emily Duncan
Year: 2016
Producers:
- Katie Toth
An A.I. detective intercepts emails from a young TV journalist, and attempts to rescue her from the clutches of Big Data.
Year: 2016
Producers:
- Billy Shebar
- J. Faye Yuan
- Yasaman Kazerooni
A quiet eavesdropper gets more than he bargained for at the public library.
Year: 2016
Producers:
- Noah Levinson
Daoud Iskander hunts porcupines in southern Lebanon.
Year: 2016
Producers:
- Hugo Goodridge
When humanity vanishes, Hell Gate will be the last bridge standing in New York City; until then, it watches and waits.
Year: 2016
Producers:
- Rebecca Seidel
- Trevor Wallace
Larry and Ann Cihanek recount the history of their Rhinebeck, NY-based weed control business, Green Goats, which sends friendly goats to parks across the northeast to destroy invasive plants by simply eating them.
Year: 2016
Producers:
- Stephanie Coleman
- Anna Cassell
A contemplation of the return of rattlesnakes to Massachusetts.
Year: 2016
Producers:
- Todd Wemmer
- Sam Wemmer
- Belle Wemmer
Two sons recall a night in Los Angeles 60 years ago.
Year: 2016
Producers:
- Angie Vorhies
The story of how love can transgress through all realms of life and death.
Year: 2016
Producers:
- Dean Ahern, Michaela Kane & Saoirse Finnegan Sheirdan
A story about deer, a wonderful lake, internet privacy and who is the deer.
Year: 2016
Producers:
- Dear Deer Face Collective
A fictional documentary about the mysterious, elusive wild-man Bil.
Year: 2016
Producers:
- Gavin Doyle
- Aisling Lambert
- Ashley Parsons
Whether she likes it or not, things are about to change.
Year: 2016
Producers:
- Maya Goldberg-Safir
Two obnoxious city boys take the Giant Squid Safari in the Sea of Japan and end up in deep trouble.
Year: 2016
Producers:
- Peregrine Andrews
- Geoff Marsh
A series of events inside and outside of someone's head.
Year: 2016
Producers:
- Tessa Jane Kalinosky
A dead friend lives on, thanks to spammers and a willingness to believe in possibility.
Year: 2016
Producers:
- Diane Rao Harman
- Kim Fox
He was in danger but he had someone whom he can trust, who were wandering in her memories to find the traces of him.
Year: 2016
Producers:
- Melike Ceylan
Hear the inner thoughts of Fembot – your ideal, socially-constructed long-distance girlfriend!
Year: 2016
Producers:
- Michelle Macklem
- Katie Hill
- Matthew Kariatsumari
Creative inspiration turns to obsession in the life of an artist.
Year: 2016
Producers:
- Spivey Knapik
My dad stares out the window a lot at work - for a while I thought he was being lazy but I don't think he is anymore.
Year: 2016
Producers:
- Hans Anderson
Alien transmissions, ping pong competitions and the perils of aging.
Year: 2016
Producers:
- Raymond Pang
An existential monologue of a deer along a journey that happens to be his last one.
Year: 2016
Producers:
- Yakov Lurie
The first human with heat-vision talks candidly of her experience, the surgeon explains the science while she's under the knife.
Year: 2016
Producers:
- Mia Kukathasan
After a sleepless night, a strong coffee and a walk lead to an unexpected realization.
Year: 2016
Producers:
- Sandro Schroeder
A chance encounter brings together an American and Italian boy, not knowing when they'll ever meet again.
Year: 2016
Producers:
- Garrett Kling
A look at invisibility, silhouettes, and humanity through a kaleidoscope.
Year: 2016
Producers:
- Tree Mabry
A man haunted by memory slogs through his murky past.
Year: 2016
Producers:
- Stan Vilensky
- Tucker Eads
A young woman seeks shelter from the annual summer influx of Stegosauri.
Year: 2016
Producers:
- Ari Erlbaum
- Emile Coco
This hard-boiled poet cracks another case wide open.
Year: 2016
Producers:
- Regina Botros
A house's ghostly imprint on one family's memory.
Year: 2016
Producers:
- Rosalind Lilly
- Allison Lewis
A man relives his encounter with a deadly alien.
Year: 2016
Producers:
- G. Bret Strauch, Brett Alexander, Ben Cullen, Dee Edwards, Jesse Lovelace, Anna Neal & Darcy Parker
A woman receives unexpected news and wonders how her boyfriend will react.
Year: 2016
Producers:
- Mary Helen Montgomery
- Maura Friedman
To stick with the herd, sometimes you give up everything.
Year: 2016
Producers:
- Jessica Klinke
A YouTube make-up star who suffers from anxiety finds love in an unlikely place.
Year: 2016
Producers:
- Sandra Bertin
Standing where she always wanted to be, a woman on the moon looks at life from a distance.
Year: 2016
Producers:
- Dorothea Trufelman
- Emma Lanier
At the World's Largest Truck Stop in Walcott, Iowa, nothing is simply what it is.
Year: 2016
Producers:
- Jake J. Smith
A young man's gritty investigation of a crime that hit his snack drawer.
Year: 2016
Producers:
- James Lindberg
Robbie, a former lighthouse keeper in Guernsey, thinks he sent as many as 2000 messages out to sea over the years - with some interesting results.
Year: 2016
Producers:
- Elisabeth Mahy
Something is coming for a man struggling to survive - is it Spring, Redemption, Revenge or Death?
Year: 2016
Producers:
- Chandler Murray
Hubert copes with depression in a culture of guns: A radio poem.
Year: 2016
Producers:
- David Merleau
Captain Sheila gets a little help taming the wild wastes of outer space.
Year: 2016
Producers:
- Allison Quantz
- Bethy Squires
- Natalie Bainter
What if Robert Frost's poem "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” were re-imagined as a film?
Year: 2016
Producers:
- Stephanie Rowden
- Jennifer Metsker
A bland, unremarkable, "yes" man goes along with everything and doesn't question social customs.
Year: 2016
Producers:
- Aaron Leeder
- Matt Black
Carl Miles is a professional hunter who goes after an innocent deer.
Year: 2016
Producers:
- Liana Leite
The story of a relationship with reference to our relationship to the planet.
Written and narrated by James Whitman.
Year: 2016
Producers:
- RJ Phoenix
An Inuit artist on the ritual that connects him with the childhood he lost, and a culture he longs to remember.
Year: 2016
Producers:
- Vanessa Greco
This is an adventure that was recorded outside, inside and in-games.
Year: 2016
Producers:
- Adriene Lilly
Darrell finds out that you can't trust anyone. Not even yourself.
Year: 2016
Producers:
- Justin & Anna Neal
You don't expect to hear a saxophone walking through the woods, and the encores are unlikely to happen.
Year: 2016
Producers:
- Vladimir Kryuchev
When a strange item is left behind in a motel room, a lost & found coordinator is forced to confront her own life's meaning.
Year: 2016
Producers:
- Hubby Jenkins
- Horatio Baltz
Barbara & Jim fell in love, got married, and began building their life together, but things didn't turn out exactly as planned.
Year: 2016
Producers:
- Abbie Allensen
Steve the bellhop knows the champagne goes to someone's room on the third floor, but in this hotel of mystery the question remains: who ordered the bubbly?
Year: 2016
Producers:
- Allison Quantz
- Natalie Bainter
- Bethy Squires
A woman and dog hide out from a storm in her mother's strange basement.
Year: 2016
Producers:
- Ellie Gordon-Moershel
A famous Romanian music therapist invites his clients deep into the wild where they express their most intimate feelings in a very original way.
Year: 2016
Producers:
- Cezar Florea
A man searches through his tapes looking for a lost memory.
Year: 2016
Producers:
- Oliver Morris
A meditation on the paradox of connection/disconnection, explored through the eyes, words and minds of two strangers - one in Tokyo and one in Rome.
Year: 2016
Producers:
- Dominica Roebuck
A woman pieces together sonic memories and her sense of belonging through swimming.
Year: 2016
Producers:
- Michelle Macklem
When it comes to modern-day private investigation, there's more than meets the (private) eye.
Year: 2016
Producers:
- Natalie Orenstein
- Kathleen Costanza
1 goof. 100 internet people. 50 000 fiddleheads.
Year: 2016
Producers:
- Johnny Spence
- Veronica Simmonds
The true story of a disappearance in the NDG neighborhood of Montreal.
Year: 2016
Producers:
- Tally Abecassis
Abstract psychodrama collage: Noir cadence through psychological meandering.
Year: 2016
Producers:
- Laura Reid & Mark Limacher
The world is strange outside
I’m a stranger in the landscape
As a bad edition of
Alice in Wonderland
Year: 2016
Producers:
- Rikke Mia Skovdal
A story of a pigeon that kept returning to a family's home almost like an omen.
Year: 2016
Producers:
- Erik Mangrum
A group of Cantabrigians reflect on the weekly potluck that brings them together.
Year: 2016
Producers:
- Nick Andersen
This ShortDoc takes a walk in a local cemetery as you hear the typical dialogue between fellow birdwatchers and follow one birder in particular.
Year: 2016
Producers:
- Nick Russo
This piece presents two powerful women: the original femme fatale, Lady Macbeth, and presidential candidate, Hillary Clinton, to meditate on society's fixation with the archetype in both fiction and real life.
Year: 2016
Producers:
- Alex Gonzalez
A story about nature's power. Special thanks to Elise Neuscheler.
Year: 2016
Producers:
- Katrine Hedegaard
This hour we're featuring two stories of love through loss... plus an interview with the producers who've written their way through these troubled moments.
Year: 2016
Producers:
- Sophie Townsend
- Sara Curtis
- Dennis Funk
A city goer escapes the loudness of the city to find peace in nature.
Year: 2016
Producers:
- Megan Kolopsky
The origin story of how Crazy Woman Creek in Wyoming got its name, as told from the perspective of a mountain man named Johnson.
Year: 2016
Roger, produced in multiple dimensions, must struggle with the production of his life and his life production "in space, or anywhere else."
Year: 2016
Producers:
- Evelyn Bottando
A hidden note begins an adventure in a strange house in Logan Square.
Year: 2016
Producers:
- Elisa Shoenberger
This nature documentary explores the world of the formicarium or ant farm with expert Claire Craig.
Year: 2016
Producers:
- Rachel Gelfand
A true story of an irresponsible night out in London many years ago.
Year: 2016
Producers:
- Roland Denning
A kid in a town in North Ontario on the prowl for something supernatural finds it where he didn't expect to.
Year: 2016
Producers:
- Jess Shane
A ghastly scene takes a hardboiled detective by surprise, but something even more unexpected lurks in the shadows of deception that hang heavy in this picturesque suburban home.
Year: 2016
Producers:
- Samantha and Jacob LeBas
In the idyllic first days of college, two friends are startled in their new surroundings.
Year: 2016
Producers:
- Austin Frederick
Many houses are robbed - but how often does someone camp both outside and inside your house waiting for his or her opportunity to pounce?
Year: 2016
Producers:
- Sam Turken
Five years ago Erik embarked on "the project" - a last ditch attempt to harness the demons of his past.
Year: 2016
Producers:
- Kirsti Melville
In 2004, Howard Dean's presidential run fell apart, punctuated by an incredibly strange sound he made onstage at the Iowa caucus.
Year: 2016
Producers:
- Jody Avirgan
Part documentary, part rumination, and part fairy tale.
Year: 2016
Producers:
- Stephanie Rowden
Abel's fate is confirmed by an eyewitness who survived a suicide bombing in Afghanistan.
Year: 2016
Producers:
- John Bechtold
This week on Re:sound, a few stops on the East Village Poetry Walk, produced by Pejk Malinovski narrated by Jim Jarmusch.
Year: 2012
Producers:
- Pejk Malinovski
- Katie Mingle
This week on Re:sound, the work of reporter Linda Lutton.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Linda Lutton
- Katie Mingle
From the ABC's Long Story Short, the story of a guy who was thrown a lot of curve balls, and overcame them all.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Mike Williams
- Katie Mingle
This week, we're featuring an episode of the podcast Everything Sounds.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- George Drake Jr.
- Craig Shank
- Katie Mingle
Turn right and you'll meet the man or woman of your dreams. Turn left and you'll get hit by a car.
Year: 2014
Producers:
- Sarah Boothroyd
- Dennis Funk
This week on Re:sound, a powerful story of love and loss... plus an interview with Australian producer Jaye Kranz
Year: 2014
Producers:
- Jaye Kranz
- Dennis Funk
This week on the podcast, a Third Coast original production.
Year: 2015
Producers:
- Maya Goldberg-Safir
- Dennis Funk
To kick-off Third Coast's summer fundraiser, we're doing what we do best — sharing great radio from around the world — with some extra special feature podcasts over the next two weeks.
Year: 2015
Producers:
- Ann Heppermann
- Martin Johnson
- Dennis Funk
On this special Third Coast Podcast we're doing what we do best — sharing the best radio from around the world!
Year: 2015
Producers:
- Marlo Mack
- Sara Curtis
- Dennis Funk
The 2015 Third Coast Festival Broadcast, featuring the winners of our annual competition.
Year: 2015
Producers:
- Axel Kronholm
- Lauren Spohrer
- Phoebe Judge
- Colin McNulty
- Jad Abumrad
- Dennis Funk
The 2015 Third Coast Festival Broadcast, featuring the winners of our annual competition.
Year: 2015
Producers:
- Becky Ripley
- Madeleine Baran
- Sasha Aslanian
- Joel Werner
- Sam Greenspan
- Starlee Kine
- Briana Breen
- Brendan Baker
- Dennis Funk
Outside Podcast plunges into a night of bitterly cold catastrophes.
Year: 2016
Producers:
- Peter Frick-Wright
- Robbie Carver
A man wakes up caught in the memory of a movie he watched the night before.
Year: 2016
Producers:
- Roland Denning
The Intersection takes an unflinching look at a changing Bay Area through the lens of a single neighborhood corner.
Year: 2016
Producers:
- David Boyer
This hour gravity, antigravity, magical trees and flying carpets.
Year: 2016
Producers:
- Cathy FitzGerald
- Matt Thompson
- Stephanie Rowden
- Dennis Funk
This hour the story of thousands of African American farmers who lost millions of acres of land at the hands of institutional racism.
Year: 2016
Producers:
- Aengus Anderson
- James Ford Howell
- Tina Antolini
- Dennis Funk
This hour we're live at the Hideout in Chicago with stories of pairs who are complete opposites, but utterly entwined.
Year: 2016
Producers:
- Maya Goldberg-Safir
- Dennis Funk
- Rayon Wright
- Gwen Macsai
This hour stories of quiet calls that have produced the most unexpected responses.
Year: 2016
Producers:
- Lynn Levy
- Alex Goldman
- PJ Vogt
- Peter Meanwell
- Joe Rosenberg
- Dennis Funk
This hour we listen to some of our favourite entries to the 2015 Third Coast Short Docs Challenge: Studs Rules!
Year: 2016
Producers:
- Benjamin Riskin
- Ilya Marritz
- Liam Romer
- Catie Talarski
- Austin Mitchell
- Neena Pathak
- Eloise Stevens
- Pablo Duarte
- Emer Horgan
- Ronan Kelly
- Olivia Humphreys
- John-Michael Forman
- Sara Curtis
- Dennis Funk
- Sam Wemmer
- Todd Wemmer
This hour stories of those who share and those who creep in the shadows.
Year: 2016
Producers:
- Natalie Kestecher
- Jonathan Mitchell
- Peregrine Andrews
- Dennis Funk
This hour, the story of a man who's ultimate goal is to become a national evening news anchor.
Year: 2015
Producers:
- Noel Black
- Jake Brownell
- Dennis Funk
This hour, two delightfully out-of-the-ordinary musical portraits from producer Alan Hall.
Year: 2015
Producers:
- Alan Hall
- Dennis Funk
This hour, we follow three addicts through Australia's drug court system.
Year: 2015
Producers:
- Sharon Davis
- Steven Tilley
This hour: audio stories inspired by the written word, be it a novel or a comic book.
Year: 2015
Producers:
- Steven Rajam
- Tim Key
- Al Letson
- Jon Steiner
- Adam Norris
- Louis Mitchell
- Julie Shapiro
- Dennis Funk
- Laura Starecheski
This hour two stories that dive into the depths of the inner ear.
Year: 2015
Producers:
- Nick Ryan
- Lisa Gee
- Jeremy Mortimer
- Tim Hinman
- Dennis Funk
During his hitchhiking trip across Canada, Nate sets up his tent in a forest next to the highway, and the glow of a distant street light lulls him to sleep... but he is soon awakened by a pack of curious locals.
Year: 2016
Producers:
- Brennan Mercer
Myanmar's Rohingya Muslim population is one of the most persecuted minorities in the world.
Year: 2015
Producers:
- Axel Kronholm
- Rob Sachs
- Flawn Williams
- Mia Lobel
Betrayed by Silence takes listeners inside the clergy sex abuse scandal in the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis to find out how and why three archbishops protected priests who sexually abused children.
Year: 2015
Producers:
- Madeleine Baran
- Sasha Aslanian
Andrea is a writer who no one reads. Her second novel bombed. She never saw anyone reading it. That is until 2008.
Year: 2015
Producers:
- Starlee Kine
During the dying minutes of April 2003, as the Cornish town of Padstow celebrated the coming of summer, actor Tristan Sturrock broke his neck falling off a wall.
Year: 2015
Producers:
- Becky Ripley
Diane's new neighbors never shut their curtains, and that was the beginning of an intimate, but very one-sided relationship.
Year: 2015
Producers:
- Brendan Baker
- Briana Breen
This hour we explore nearly a decade's worth of work from Canadian sound artist, musician and radio producer Sarah Boothroyd.
Year: 2015
Producers:
- Sarah Boothroyd
- Dennis Funk
This hour what you see, is not always what you get.
Year: 2015
Producers:
- Mike Ladd
- Samara Freemark
- Joe Richman
- Steve Urquhart
- Eric Molinsky
- Dennis Funk
This hour first lines, the first day back and every last first you can think of.
Year: 2015
Producers:
- Tally Abecassis
- Steve Heather
- Siegmar Zacharias
- Tim Key
- Steven Rajam
- Dennis Funk
A man who applies for a job on Mars, Walt Disney, a pot seller, and the taxi driver who explains it all.
Year: 2015
Producers:
- Tim Hinman
- Krister Moltzen
Police officer John Edwards was patrolling a quiet neighborhood in Bellaire, Texas, when he saw an SUV driven by two young African-American men.
Year: 2015
Producers:
- Lauren Spohrer
- Phoebe Judge
When it was built in 1977, the 59-story CitiCorp Center had a fatal flaw that could have caused the building to collapse, and take out the entire mid-town Manhattan skyline with it.
Year: 2015
Producers:
- Joel Werner
- Sam Greenspan
Gravity director Alfonso Cuarón presented Glenn Freemantle with a challenge - to create authentic sound design in the vacuum of space.
Year: 2015
Producers:
- Colin McNulty
Shirley Sherrod's name was thrust into the headlines in 2010 when she was fired from her post at the United States Department of Agriculture, accused of anti-white bias.
Year: 2016
Producers:
- Tina Antolini
In December of 2009, photojournalist Lynsey Addario was embedded with a medevac team in Afghanistan. After days of waiting, one night they got the call - a marine was gravely wounded.
Year: 2015
Producers:
- Jad Abumrad
- Soren Wheeler
The story of how a reclusive biologist living in the Yukon Territory helped free four women wrongfully imprisoned in San Antonio, Texas.
Year: 2015
Producers:
- Janna Graham
Let the audio fiction revolution begin! The Sarah Awards has the not-so-little goal of transforming radio drama worldwide.
Year: 2015
Producers:
- Martin Johnson
- Ann Heppermann
For years, Horace Parlan played jazz with some of the biggest names, including Charles Mingus and Archie Shepp. Now, at 84, his long piano fingers are stiff, and he lives in a nursing home outside of Copenhagen.
Year: 2015
Producers:
- Rikke Houd
Brian 'Scoop' Nemeth has a singular goal: to become "the black Bill O'Reilly."
Year: 2015
Producers:
- Noel Black
- Jake Brownell
When Sophie Townsend’s husband was diagnosed with lung cancer, she started the Russell Updates, a weekly email that laid it all bare for friends and family.
Year: 2015
Producers:
- Sophie Townsend
Vaughn Hood was a 118-pound barber when he was drafted into the Vietnam War.
Year: 2015
Producers:
- Larry Massett
This hour stories of black lives caught in the cross hairs of injustice.
Year: 2015
Producers:
- Phoebe Judge
- Lauren Spohrer
- Nate DiMeo
- Maggie Ayre
- Jud Esty-Kendall
- Dennis Funk
This hour two mysteries: one involving an obscure novel and Britney Spears, and the other a real life murder most fowl.
Year: 2015
Producers:
- Phoebe Judge
- Lauren Spohrer
- Eric Mennel
- Starlee Kine
- Alex Blumberg
- Dennis Funk
M. is six years old and transgender. Marlo is her single mom and chronicles their life together in her podcast How to Be a Girl .
Year: 2014
Producers:
- Marlo Mack
Their daughter has twelve fingers, twelve toes, some fused together and some set askew – ain't nothing but a family thing.
Year: 2015
Producers:
- Nellie Gilles
A mother and father reflect on what their child's name means and the incredible story of the destiny of the name.
Year: 2015
Producers:
- Dan Gummel
My Grandfather and Uncle recount their days as hand carving monumental sculptors in Ireland.
Year: 2015
Producers:
- Ciara O'Conner
John Perry Barlow and Dick Cheney were on different sides of the MX missile proposal during the Cold War, and after years of retrospect, Barlow credits Cheney for helping prevent nuclear holocaust.
Year: 2015
Producers:
- Will Rogers
Two students of Mexican heritage have the opportunity to travel to different parts of Mexico to explore their roots.
Year: 2015
Producers:
- Malia Stephens
My dad buys a ridiculous leather jacket in Mexico which leads to trouble with the local youth.
Year: 2015
Producers:
- Marika Snider
An adventure in how sound affects different people.
Year: 2015
Producers:
- Ricardo Paraíso Silvestre
How does the movie Fargo resonate within the people of Fargo?
Year: 2015
Producers:
- Meg Luther Lindholm
A short conversation about monks & music with Taraka Larsen of Prince Rama.
Year: 2015
Producers:
- Brendan Mattox
A blind girl accidentally ruins a hand-made kite.
Year: 2015
Producers:
- Lindsey Wu (Zhaoqianmeng Wu)
An unforgettable story of survival, loss, and gratitude from a traumatic small town tornado.
Year: 2015
Producers:
- Peggy Keiner
Becca and Hunter discover CicLAvia, a place where no cars go.
Year: 2015
Producers:
- Hunter Bermudez and Becca Grumet
A St. Paul woman's 1997 Honda is in high demand around her neighborhood.
Year: 2015
Producers:
- Steve Nelson
A look at the relationship between grandfather and grandson, and the stories people leave behind.
Year: 2015
Producers:
- Chris Pearson
- Catherine Brinkworth
How many sexual partners is anyone prepared to admit to?
Year: 2015
Producers:
- Marnie Chesterton
One man's spiritual journey, made possible through chanting.
Year: 2015
Producers:
- Stephanie Smith and Eugenia Viti
Mixed with found hums from a used voice recorder, a furniture repair and vintage store-owner recollects his father's diversions, weaknesses, and love for people.
Year: 2015
Producers:
- Meheriet Fesseha and Gaelin Monkman-Kotz
Aoife (6) and Aoibhinn (3) were followed around with a microphone, and at times took matters into their own hands!
Year: 2015
Producers:
- Lisa Madden
A 5th grade girl interviews a classmate about his interest in Little Lulu.
Year: 2015
Producers:
- Jesse Rhodes
- Shirley Liang
In this exploration into the bagel feud between bagel shops St-Viateur and Fairmount, I speak with customers, employees and bagel connoisseurs alike to try and discover why people choose one bagel shop over the other.
Year: 2015
Producers:
- Michelle Macklem
I ask my mother about the moment that defines her life and mine that I don't remember.
Year: 2015
Producers:
- Meredith Turk
This is a story about what we sometimes do with the stuff that we don't use anymore.
Year: 2015
Producers:
- Jackie Sojico
Zamina, originially from Trinidad, is a seamstress by day and a restauranteur by night.
Year: 2015
Producers:
- @Jenniferpossible
There are so many pidgeons in London, but why do you never see a dead one?
Year: 2015
Producers:
- Chris Pearson
- Catherine Brinkworth
The remarkable hat worn by a man on a park bench in Santa Fe plaza begs an explanation.
Year: 2015
Producers:
- Siohban McHugh
Interview with my grandma Jane about when she met JFK and how his assassination affected her.
Year: 2015
Producers:
- Ellie Nakayama
The humour, the pain, and the liberation of a simple haircut.
Year: 2015
Producers:
- Alison Broverman
- Veronica Simmonds
Two women go to the hospital with pain in their stomach but each one is on a very different journey.
Year: 2015
Producers:
- Adriana Cargill
A little seaside town on the West Coast of Ireland wears floral posies for the children of Gaza.
Year: 2015
Producers:
- Ellen Cranitch
An exploration of the cacophony and cyclical nature of life.
Year: 2015
Producers:
- Tom Harrison
Jimmy Arteaga, a street juggler from Ecuador, reflects on his childhood and his child.
Year: 2015
Producers:
- Sayre Quevedo
Three of the founders of the Women's Prison Book Project in Minneapolis talk about their memories and experiences in the early years.
Year: 2015
Producers:
- Dixie Treichel
This hour some of our favorite childhood icons: from the man who gave us Thing One & Thing Two... to Dorothy, the Tin Man and Toto too.
Year: 2015
Producers:
- Eleanor McDowall
- Jonathan Mitchell
- Kelley Libby
- Eric Molinsky
- Ave Carillo
- Dennis Funk
In this mockumentary piece, June Jensen must find a way to keep her hot dish hot on the way to the church potluck.
Year: 2015
Producers:
- Alex Ward
Using the poetry and commentary of Kuumba Lynx (a Chicago-based hip hop coalition) this sound art piece investigates how institutional disinvestments in Chicago's South Side communities have affected its residents' nutritional health.
Year: 2015
Producers:
- Justin Zullo
My Burmese friend Darko teaches us that pop music in Myanmar is defined by the cover song.
Year: 2015
Producers:
- Erik DeLuca
I met Why Not? while searching for 78RPM records of traditional Saing Waing music in Myanmar.
Year: 2015
Producers:
- Erik DeLuca
Two seniors in Punahou High School in Honolulu, Hawaii share their tender voices and cries of laughter as they sing us the story of their friendship and community in Hawaii.
Year: 2015
Producers:
- Reem Alfahad
I'm in awe of my new roommate Lina. But she's from Idaho...
Year: 2015
Producers:
- Maya Goldberg-Safir
Brian thinks maths is beautiful, and would like to tell you why.
Year: 2015
Producers:
- Brian Mackenwells
Dr Christine Blancher, at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics in Oxford, talks us through one of the big DNA sequencers they use to produce the string of letters (A, T, G, and C) which is your unique genetic code.
Year: 2015
Producers:
- Brian Mackenwells
When Sergeant Carrie Lopes joined the Provincetown Police Department, she was one of the only women on the force; thirty years later, she reflects on sexual harassment experienced at the beginning of her career.
Year: 2015
Producers:
- Annabel Lang
A window into the mind of a library thief.
Year: 2015
Producers:
- Jagmeet Mac
- Alex Danilowicz
Andrew was working as an artist and performer for years before he decided to tell his family about it.
Year: 2015
Producers:
- Michael De Bonis
In 1968 a young art student accepts what turns out to be a very strange commission to make a painting.
Year: 2015
Producers:
- Stephen Rowe and Mike Massey
Sometimes attention to detail is not part of the job description.
Year: 2015
Producers:
- Kenneth Knapik
- Spivey Knapik
Morgan Lennon describes a kind of loss that is not uncommon to women, though rarely spoken about.
Year: 2015
Producers:
- Indaia Whitcombe
Photographs are some of our most treasured objects, leagues of people are dedicated to their preservation, but what happens to the pictures that've lost their way?
Year: 2015
Producers:
- Qathi Hart
A distilled conversation between Erica Jong and Studs Terkel, remixed with music.
Year: 2015
Producers:
- Austin Mitchell
The First in a series of Short Radio Documentaries, this episode focuses on: "Order 9066."
Year: 2015
Producers:
- Tim Nakayama
Sometimes the way we respond to a suicide says more about us than the person who died.
Year: 2015
Producers:
- Emily Guerin
By the end of the century half of the world's languages will no longer be spoken, this is one scream of resistance.
Year: 2015
Producers:
- Tika Simone
A love story that begins over the phone and under the stars.
Year: 2015
Producers:
- Jessi LeMay
Three generations of women discuss ice and death in the Amana Colonies.
Year: 2015
Producers:
- Ellie Gordon-Moershel
A young man loses his ACL but gains it back and much more.
Year: 2015
Producers:
- James Min
A family talks about what it was like to have the same name as the most hated person in America.
Year: 2015
Producers:
- Debra Oswald
Trying to find comfort in a basement apartment.
Year: 2015
Producers:
- Zak Rosen
- Rebecca Prosser
Sometimes, getting lost and having ice cream for dinner is the best thing that can happen.
Year: 2015
Producers:
- Katherine Kibler
How a simple timeless truth can create intimacy, transform relationships and improve our lives forever.
Year: 2015
Producers:
- Tony DiLeonardi
A meditation on the perceptions of Chicago as a violent city.
Year: 2015
Producers:
- David Dault
2015 ShortDocs Winner! A story of girls who say 'yes' that is 100% true.
Year: 2015
Producers:
- Emer Horgan
2015 ShortDocs Winner! What if you could learn to stop listening to other people?
Year: 2015
Producers:
- John-Michael Forman
The life and hard times of a truck-stop attendant in the spirit of a Studs Terkel encounter.
Year: 2015
Producers:
- Ned Simonson
A man struggles through a blind date at a resturant.
Year: 2015
Producers:
- Steve Krysak
Robin Holleran's life was forever changed the day she survived a plane crash.
Year: 2015
Producers:
- Jonathan Hirsch
In three scenes and a whole life spent in and out of the state, I attempt to answer the question, "What is Indiana?"
Year: 2015
Producers:
- Evelyn Bottando
I placed a large resonating tube in a public library for a full day and invited people to stick their heads in, hold their breath, and then answer the question: “What makes you breathless?”
Year: 2015
Producers:
- Justin Zullo
I asked many people when was the freest they'd ever felt in their lives. This is one person's story.
Year: 2015
Producers:
- Meg Ritter
What is the personal experience of having Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Deficiency (Alpha-1)?
Year: 2015
Producers:
- Garrett Tiedemann
The polar plunge: a story of cold water and warm hearts.
Year: 2015
Producers:
- Fallon Schlossman
We can measure distance in miles, but the heartache it causes is indefinable.
Year: 2015
Producers:
- Jesse Dembo
An unwelcome visitor and a meeting in the desert.
Year: 2015
Producers:
- Edgar Maddicott
One man decides the best way to break from the past is to change his name.
Year: 2015
Producers:
- David Chong
A wildlife biologist shares a surprising fact about Hawaii's native species.
Year: 2015
Producers:
- Laurie Sumiye
My 8 year old nephew's first undercover journalism gig.
Year: 2015
Producers:
- Michael Ferstenfeld
Two people. Two stories. Two significant moments when everything changed: discovering sexuality and surviving sexual assault.
Year: 2015
Producers:
- Nicholas Pencak
For young people who live in some of the most dangerous neighborhoods in the western hemisphere, the passage north is often just as hard as staying.
Year: 2015
Producers:
- Watson Hartsoe
One in a million... Maria's chronicle of shameless acceptance.
Year: 2015
Producers:
- Vivianne Cardenas
Between sea level rise and a disappearing coastline it feels inevitable that life as we know it in New Orleans is on a limited run, but how much time do we have?
Year: 2015
Producers:
- Eve Abrams
A granddaughter tells us about her grandfather's funeral.
Year: 2015
Producers:
- Eloise Stevens
A working interview for a smart phone society.
Year: 2015
Producers:
- Benjamin Riskin
- Aaron Leeder
2015 ShortDocs Winner! My grandparents, now in their 90s and married for nearly 70 years, tell me about when they met and give their advice on a long and happy marriage.
Year: 2015
Producers:
- Olivia Humphreys
During my first year in the classroom I misplace a student's paper but find a little bit of humility.
Year: 2015
Producers:
- Abby Gerdes
Bluff and Family describe the horrors of the Georgian Legend of The Bearcat.
Year: 2015
Producers:
- Wolff and Zach Bowden
Science has severe problems dealing with the supernatural...
Year: 2015
Producers:
- Stine Sofie Ankerbo
- Søren Christensen Boss
Ten years later, a survivor reflects on the fragility of life and the random ruin caused by the worst natural disaster in living memory, the Boxing Day tsunami of 2004, a day when nearly 250,000 people perished across 14 countries, one third of them, children.
Year: 2015
Producers:
- Deborah Bauer
Every motorcyclist you ever speak to has a story to tell.
Year: 2015
Producers:
- Geoff McQueen
My mother's trials as a pet owner—and as a parent—go on the record when I do a story about “puppy kindergarten.”
Year: 2015
Producers:
- Kate Stein
Many women's voices become one experience of abuse.
Year: 2015
Producers:
- Regina Botros
I find out why my Dad, David, is so fascinated with clocks and explore what makes him tick.
Year: 2015
Producers:
- Michael Dale
2015 ShortDocs Winner! I ask my family members if they remember what my father sounded like.
Year: 2015
Producers:
- Pablo Duarte
An interview concerning a tale of trial and tribulation from the heart of Mr.SKREEJEE – a half-dog, half-gorilla, half human member of a fictitious landmine lookout patrol.
Year: 2015
Producers:
- Joseph Amodei
Carol found Betty abandoned in rural Utah and gave her a new, loving home.
Year: 2015
Producers:
- Benjamin Bombard
2015 People's ShortDoc Award Winner! An intimate conversation with Studs about the edges of life and death.
Year: 2015
Producers:
- Sara Curtis
My aunt, Debby Wurster, is making the most of her retirement.
Year: 2015
Producers:
- Katie Klocksin
This dreamy short doc considers people's inner worlds, and asks whether we even have total access to our own.
Year: 2015
Producers:
- Annie Costakis
- Katie Gilbert
Liam tells Sam about his adventures on a trip to Bali and Sri Lanka.
Year: 2015
Producers:
- Liam Romer
- Sam Wemmer
- Todd Wemmer
The producer's grandma reflects on growing old in a country that's not her home.
Year: 2015
Producers:
- Neena Pathak
A teacher on the first day of the job encounters an 8th grader with a swastika tattoo.
Year: 2015
Producers:
- Jessica Cheung
In a domestic sea of Amstel Light, Where's the Amstel Heavy?
Year: 2015
Producers:
- Laine Kaplan-Levenson
A Chicago nanny stumbles upon an existential dilemma while buying Christmas gifts for her charges.
Year: 2015
Producers:
- Jake J. Smith
How a group of 80's Cuban misfits found punk rock and went into exile without ever leaving home.
Year: 2015
Producers:
- Tim Howard
- Luis Trelles
This hour we meander our way down three rivers in search of solace, spiritual healing and, of course, total domination.
Year: 2015
Producers:
- Dan Weissmann
- Roman Mars
- Sam Greenspan
- Alex Chadwick
- Dennis Funk
A prisoner of an antebellum asylum express his horror in a letter to his sister.
Year: 2015
Producers:
- Cynthia Morrison
Leaving the armed forces had serious consequences for Paul Boucher's health.
Year: 2015
Producers:
- Andy Parnell
Irukandji; an invisible, thumbnail sized jellyfish whose sting causes unimaginable pain.
Year: 2015
Producers:
- Joel Werner
Carlos Cardenas finds hope after losing a leg to diabetes.
Year: 2015
Producers:
- Francesco De Salvatore
The story of “ghost” through interviews, films, music and instructional videos.
Year: 2015
Producers:
- Adriene Lilly
Over 44 million people live with dementia worldwide, but it is not until it affects you directly that you realise the impact the disease can have on your life.
Year: 2015
Producers:
- Cristina Parry
Lourdes Mello's late husband bought her a Mustang convertible in 1989; the car is badly broken now, but she holds on to it for the memories.
Year: 2015
Producers:
- Lily Doron
Megan Williams talks to a Jewish vendor who sells Catholic objects in Rome.
Year: 2015
Producers:
- Megan Williams
According to Tía Nora, things have changed since the 1950s.
Year: 2015
Producers:
- Erin Leyson
Women contemplate and celebrate the choice to let their hair go gray.
Year: 2015
Producers:
- Nancy Camden
A mother shares the unusual way she came to learn her father loved her.
Year: 2015
Producers:
- Alexis Stember
Richard Browne speaks about his life and passion as a falconer.
Year: 2015
Producers:
- Steven Ahlman
An unexpected jam session with a dog and an alto saxophone.
Year: 2015
Producers:
- Elisa Shoenberger
The idea was to drive around and talk to people about the end of the world. As producer Scott Carrier says, "There's no law against it."
Year: 2015
Producers:
- Scott Carrier
Does a guy at Antique Roadshow have The Holy Grail?
Year: 2015
Producers:
- Brian Price & Jerry Stearns
On this episode of Re:sound, we're featuring an episode of the podcast Here Be Monsters .
Year: 2014
Producers:
- Lina Misitzis
- Dennis Funk
On this episode of Re:sound, a live recording of Third Coast's recent listening event with WBEZ Education reporter Linda Lutton.
Year: 2014
Producers:
- Linda Lutton
- Dennis Funk
On this episode of Re:sound, we're featuring one of our favourite entries to the 2014 Third Coast Richard H. Driehaus Competition.
Year: 2014
Producers:
- David Weinberg
- Dennis Funk
On this episode of Re:sound, we're sharing two of our favorite pieces that were entered to win the 2014 Little Mermaid Award.
Year: 2014
Producers:
- Amy Pearl
- Leo Hornak
- Dennis Funk
Straight out of college, Maya was living in her cousins' attic and was working a part-time, unpaid internship. Then she took a job as a nanny that turned out to be nothing like she'd expected.
Year: 2015
Producers:
- Maya Goldberg-Safir
- Dennis Funk
Animals often have amazing life stories, but no one can hear them because they can't talk.
Year: 2015
Producers:
- Rose McBride
An evocative documentary about the sound and history of the foghorn at Lizard Point in Cornwall, UK.
Year: 2015
Producers:
- Ellen Wiles
Eight-year-old Lydia was a customer in a jewelry store when robbers stormed the counter.
Year: 2015
Producers:
- Barbara Dundon
My grandfather, John Frank Noyes, is the only person who remembers our family's homestead in Wyoming; he died this winter.
Year: 2015
Producers:
- Anne Noyes Saini
Introducing a posse of smart, hopeful, boy band conspiracy theorists... and the civilian caught in their midst.
Year: 2015
Producers:
- Alex Goldman
- PJ Vogt
This hour a revealing snapshot of Martin Luther King, Jr. as he struggled to stay the course he'd set out for himself and the nation.
Year: 2015
Producers:
- Greg Kelly
- Stephen Smith
- Dennis Funk
Behold, an hour of radio packed with exquisite field recordings from all corners of the planet.
Year: 2015
Producers:
- Conor Gillies
- Zack Ezor
- Qainat Khan
This hour we celebrate the ethereal, Dickens-inspired works of British producer Cathy Fitzgerald.
Year: 2015
Producers:
- Cathy FitzGerald
- Dennis Funk
Many young people look forward to turning 21 because they can finally go to bars to drink or see shows. For Erika Romero and her twin sister Andrea, it was an entirely different story.
Year: 2015
Producers:
- Erika Romero
How do you take your storytelling instincts and translate them into the land of photography?
Year: 2014
During World War II, Americans watched news reels of atrocities abroad. But, in some small U.S. towns, the enemy was hoeing the back garden - or sharing a meal at the kitchen table.
Year: 2015
Producers:
- Alison Jones
- Deborah George
This week stories of dads who are starting to slip away and the sons who are desperately trying to stay connected.
Year: 2015
Producers:
- Lea Thau
- Martin Johnson
- Dennis Funk
Al Letson brings our first Conference day to a close with an audio night cap.
Year: 2014
NPR reporter Alix Spiegel incites a riot among audio producers... in praise of stealing others' storytelling techniques and adapting them to create a style of one's very own.
Year: 2014
More than ever you can own your podcast - make it, distribute it, sell it. How is it done?
Year: 2014
Brendan Baker and Kaitlin Prest pull back the curtain on the alchemical process of combining stories and sound.
Year: 2014
Founding producer of This American Life Nancy Updike on the inspiration she finds in the power of vice, foible and inappropriateness on radio, podcasts, TV and in books.
Year: 2014
A bonafide Third Coast tradition! The second installment of this session once again pulls back the curtain on one of the most difficult and important skills every producer needs to master: pitching a story.
Year: 2014
Morning sunlight streams through the blinds as John Ostoich (aka "Johnny O") pours his first bourbon of the day. A cigarette hangs from his lips; his parrot, Bok-Bok, rests on his shoulder.
Year: 2015
Producers:
- Lu Olkowski
This hour we head back in time to 1984.
Year: 2015
Producers:
- Benjamen Walker
- Jonathan Goldstein
- Mira Burt-Wintonick
- Dennis Funk
Inspired by a Lego time machine her son built, Iceland-based independent producer Rikke Houd created a tool to help producers take advantage of the vast space radio offers.
Year: 2014
Learn how sharing the mic and megaphone can expand your beat, your stories, and your craft.
Year: 2014
This hour stories of detours, bad directions and finding the right path... on the road and in life.
Year: 2014
Producers:
- Lea Redfern
- Katie Mingle
- Annie Costakis
- Dennis Funk
A bonafide Third Coast tradition! This session pulls back the curtain on one of the most difficult and important skills every producer needs to master: pitching a story.
Year: 2014
There's a slip of paper hanging in Dave Isay's office at StoryCorps with a quote scrawled across it: "A good craftsman leaves no traces."
Year: 2014
When done well, investigative radio stories have the power to change the world.
Year: 2014
More than ever you can own your podcast - make it, distribute it, sell it. How is it done?
Year: 2014
The 2014 Third Coast Festival Broadcast, featuring the winners of our annual competition.
Year: 2014
Producers:
- Laura Starecheski
- Steve Wadhams
- Suzanne Ahearne
- Jesse Cox
- Joe Richman
- Sarah Kate Kramer
- Dennis Funk
The 2014 Third Coast Festival Broadcast, featuring the winners of our annual competition.
Year: 2014
Producers:
- Annie McEwen
- Luke Malone
- Colin McNulty
- PJ Vogt
- Alex Goldman
- Emily Hsiao
- Dennis Funk
This hour, two stories in which random events change lives forever, and a third pulled from a random cassette.
Year: 2014
Producers:
- Lea Thau
- Pat Mesiti-Miller
- Dennis Funk
- David Weinberg
The central claim of this story is astounding: that if we all just raised our expectations, blind people could come to - literally - see.
Year: 2014
Producers:
- Alix Spiegel
- Anne Gudenkauf
- Lulu Miller
Huge congratulations to the winners of the 2014 Third Coast/Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Competition!
Year: 2014
Producers:
- 2014 Winners
Rock legend Iggy Pop presents an intimate portrait of William S. Burroughs on the 100th birthday of America's most cataclysmic author.
Year: 2014
Producers:
- Colin McNulty
This week, Israeli soldiers speak out to advocate for Palestinian rights.
Year: 2014
Producers:
- Dennis Funk
There is currently no formal treatment or support for non-offending pedophiles who want help managing their attractions.
Year: 2014
Producers:
- Luke Malone
- Robyn Semien
Every week hundreds of people board coach buses in Chicago and travel to Mexico.
Year: 2014
Producers:
- Linda Lutton
One way to earn money selling music is boring: write one hit and live off the royalties for the rest of your life.
Year: 2014
Producers:
- Alex Goldman
- PJ Vogt
Here I Am and Here Be Danger is a non-narrated experiment in heartbreak.
Year: 2014
Producers:
- Annie McEwen
At 24, Lance Rice was on schedule to become another sad statistic in the heroin epidemic sweeping through rural Massachusetts.
Year: 2014
Producers:
- Karen Brown
Emily Hsiao reads a Craigslist post about a man who wants his swastika tattoo covered up. And then she goes to meet him.
Year: 2014
Producers:
- Emily Hsiao
Back in 2004, Laura Starecheski visited a mental hospital in Queens, N.Y. called Creedmoor, where she met a patient named Issa Ibrahim.
Year: 2014
Producers:
- Laura Starecheski
- Deborah George
- Taki Telonidis
- Brendan Baker
- Kelsey Padgett
Tom Banks is 23, gay and searching for love.
Year: 2014
Producers:
- Jesse Cox
- Timothy Nicastri
As an 19-year-old raised in the foster care system, Melissa took NPR listeners along when she gave birth to her son Issaiah.
Year: 2014
Producers:
- Joe Richman
- Sarah Kate Kramer
Kevin (not his real name) is a likable guy who lives with his wife in New Jersey. And he's on probation after serving time in a federal prison for committing a disturbing crime.
Year: 2014
Producers:
- Jad Abumrad
- Pat Walters
After twelve years of rough living in Vancouver, Arthur is moving into an apartment in a new supportive housing project. But moving inside from a life outside isn't as easy as you might think.
Year: 2014
Producers:
- Steve Wadhams
- Suzanne Ahearne
A romantic dinner for two begins with champagne and ends... with all out war.
Year: 2014
Producers:
- Dmitry Nikolaev
This hour: the dinner table and all that it inspires.
Year: 2014
Producers:
- Jonathan Goldstein
- Gwen Macsai
- Lorelei Harris
- Jen Nathan Orris
- Dmitry Nikolaev
- Dennis Funk
As we near the end of a violent summer of 2014, we look back to the summer of 1964. Late afternoon, New York City: a group of kids hangs out on a stoop after a day of summer school, just kicking it, like they always do.
Year: 2014
Producers:
- Nate DiMeo
This hour we buckle up and hit the road.
Year: 2014
Producers:
- Jonathan Menjivar
- Sophie Townsend
- Jesse Cox
- Louis Mitchell
- Mira Burt-Wintonick
- Chris Garcia
- Nancy Updike
- Linda Lutton
- Dennis Funk
The body of a woman - violently injured - is found on the shore of a lake northeast of Loftahammer, Sweden. The prime suspect? Her husband.
Year: 2014
Producers:
- Hugo Lavett
Dreams, black holes, a special door, a golden room...
Year: 2014
Producers:
- John Jacobs
- Julie Shapiro
This hour they built it and we see who came.
Year: 2014
Producers:
- Avery Trufelman
- Nick White
- Nick van der Kolk
- David Weinberg
- Brendan Baker
- Karen Duffin
- Roman Mars
- Dennis Funk
Rustle of cardboard and tin foil. Polka dots. A curious island in the middle of the Seine.
Year: 2014
Producers:
- Katharina Smets
This hour, waiting. Waiting in line, waiting for an organ transplant and waiting for a bus that's never, ever going to come.
Year: 2014
Producers:
- Sean Cole
- Lulu Miller
- Catie Talarski
- Dennis Funk
Growing up in Miami, Harvey Katz - then Elizabeth - was expected to have a bat mitzvah (the Jewish coming of age ceremony for girls), followed by a big, blow-out party.
Year: 2014
Producers:
- Mitra Kaboli
This week one woman's story unfolds through many threads.
Year: 2014
Producers:
- Chris Brookes
- Dennis Funk
How does a victim's family cope, hours after a violent crime, when they are thrust into a national spotlight?
Year: 2014
Producers:
- Lauren Spohrer
- Phoebe Judge
- Eric Mennel
This hour we step inside the mind and listen to our thoughts.
Year: 2014
Producers:
- Cristal Duhaime
- Mira Burt-Wintonick
- Pejk Malinovski
- Gwen Macsai
- Taki Telonidis
- Benjamen Walker
- Dennis Funk
Once upon a time there was a treasure trove of incredible audio stories locked away inside a lovely but creaky website.
Year: 2014
Producers:
- listeners and makers like you
This hour we listen in on hearing — a complex system of circuitry that is vulnerable to all sorts of interruptions, misfires and breakdowns.
Year: 2014
Producers:
- Brian Calvert
- Paolo Pietropaolo
- Jonathan Mitchell
- Dennis Funk
Twenty-six years ago, Warren Kirk was at home in his suburban Melbourne rental flat. Freshly showered and dressed, he consulted the yellow pages before making a call.
Year: 2014
Producers:
- Jaye Kranz
This hour we look at the ups and downs of confinement.
Year: 2014
Producers:
- Nate DiMeo
- Daniel A. Gross
- Elizabeth Arnold
- Jon Tjhia
- Dennis Funk
In the book 1984, George Orwell predicted that in the future "Big Brother" would watch and dictate our every move. In the year 1984, producer Benjamen Walker was in middle school.
Year: 2014
Producers:
- Benjamen Walker
This hour, we celebrate the work of a great journalist — Matt Power, who died March 10, 2014 while on assignment in Uganda.
Year: 2014
Producers:
- Matthew Power
- Dennis Funk
We interrupt our regular library spotlight for a quick pas de deux: a minute (and two seconds) that gives voice to movement and movement to voice.
Year: 2014
Producers:
- CPR Arts Bureau
- Wonderbound
Andrea Silenzi's new podcast holds up a mirror to contemporary love and relationships, revealing the good, the bad, and the ugly within.
Year: 2014
Producers:
- Andrea Silenzi
This hour: We showcase some of our favorite stories from the 2013 Third Coast ShortDocs Challenge.
Year: 2014
Producers:
- Katie Mingle
The things we give, the things we treasure, and the things we fling at each other when it all goes wrong.
Year: 2014
Producers:
- Cathy FitzGerald
This hour: We showcase some of our favorite stories from the 2013 Third Coast ShortDocs Challenge: Appetite!
Year: 2014
Producers:
- Logan Jaffe
- Matt Thomas
- Tim Needles
- Catie Talarski
- Jeff Towne
- Deena Prichep and Joanna Stein
- Sam Agee
- Alix Blair
- Kelly Jones
- Jenny Asarnow
- Mary T. Diorio Schilling
- Katie Mingle
Turn right and you'll meet the man or woman of your dreams. Turn left and you'll get hit by a car.
Year: 2014
Producers:
- Sarah Boothroyd
Fire Island, only sixty miles from New York City, has long served as a safe and vibrant mecca for gay men and women. But in the early 1980's, the haven faced a new and lethal threat.
Year: 2014
Producers:
- Myke Dodge Weiskopf
For Beth and Brian, a lung transplant could extend their lives for years. Or, it could lead to rejection and continued suffering.
Year: 2014
Producers:
- Catie Talarski
This hour: when two people meet, sometimes extraordinary things happen. And sometimes extraordinary things happen in order for two people to meet.
Year: 2014
Producers:
- Peter Mulryan
- Liam O'Brien
- Lea Thau
- Katie Mingle
This hour: failure of flight. In one story a man mysteriously falls from the sky onto a sunny London street, and in another, a plane crashes into a mountain side, and an 11 year old walks away.
Year: 2014
Producers:
- Katie Mingle
This hour: where kids go to get away; from themselves, their troubles, the rules they're supposed to follow, and of course, their parents.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Katie Mingle
This hour: we present two very different stories about the Texas State Penitentiary. Both are about soul - the kind you dance to, and the kind you pray for.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Katie Mingle
This hour: imperfect, impolitic, infuriating... love.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Katie Mingle
- Sharon Mashihi
- Mira Burt-Wintonick
- Jonathan Goldstein
- Rachel James
- Daniel Estrin
This hour: the delicate interdependence between being in need and answering the call to help.
Year: 2010
Producers:
- Katie Mingle
This hour: letters. To yourself, to your city, lost letters, found letters... and a love letterto letters.
Year: 2011
Producers:
- Katie Mingle
This hour: To do lists, compulsive lists, data lists, lists in literature and a list of firsts.
Year: 2012
Producers:
- Katie Mingle
This hour: a purple hotel, a family who argues over their skin color, a singing rainbow and more.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Katie Mingle
This hour: failure of flight. In one story a man mysteriously falls from the sky onto a sunny London street, and in another, a plane crashes into a mountain side, and an 11-year-old walks away.
Year: 2014
Producers:
- Bob Carlson
- Kerstin Zilm
- Rob Walker
- Katie Mingle
In 1993, Mike Checuga was a 24 year-old working obsessively long hours until his boss ordered him to take a day off each week.
Year: 2014
Producers:
- Alex Kotlowitz
- Amy Drozdowska
This hour: where kids go to get away; from themselves, their troubles, the rules they're supposed to follow, and of course, their parents.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Erin Davis
- Karen Levine
- Emelia Symington Fedy
- Alex Goldman
- Sam Greenspan
- Roman Mars
- Katie Mingle
After Oklahoma passed the toughest anti-immigration bill in the country, a Catholic church in Tulsa was looking for help, so they created a shrine to Santo Toribio, the patron saint of immigrants.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Sarah Geis
Re:sound's Gwen Macsai hosts Best of the Best: The 2013 Third Coast Festival Broadcast, showcasing the best radio stories of the year - winners of the 2013 TC / Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Competition.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Marianne McCune
- Cathy FitzGerald
- Matt Thompson
- Courtney Stein
- Temitayo Fagbenle
- Linda Lutton
- Alex Kotlowitz
- Katie Mingle
Re:sound's Gwen Macsai hosts Best of the Best: The 2013 Third Coast Festival Broadcast, showcasing the best radio stories of the year - winners of the 2013 TC / Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Competition.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Emily Kwong
- Mooj Zadie
- Nick van der Kolk
- Brendan Baker
- Alicia Zuckerman
- Dan Grech
- Kenny Malone
- Sammy Mack
- Trina Sargalski
- Katie Mingle
This hour: imperfect, impolitic, infuriating... love.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Daniel Estrin
- Dennis Funk
- Rachel James
- Sharon Mashihi
- Mira Burt-Wintonick
- Jonathan Goldstein
- Katie Mingle
Behold! The 2013 Third Coast / Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Competition winners - a most stellar batch of radio documentaries from around the world.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- 2013 Winners
Many teenagers live half of their lives on social media sites and they're writing the rules as they go.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Courtney Stein
- Temitayo Fagbenle
In the 2011 -2012 school year, Harper High School, located in one of Chicago's most violent neighborhoods, saw 29 of its current and recent students shot.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Alex Kotlowitz
- Ben Calhoun
- Linda Lutton
Ellen was struggling for money, working as a Subway "sandwich artist" (yes, that's a real thing.)
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Brendan Baker
- Mooj Zadie
- Nick van der Kolk
As a young boy, producer Jesse Cox discovered a set of old cassette tapes which turned out to be a hugely popular BBC radio show featuring his grandparents.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Claudia Taranto
- Jesse Cox
- Russell Stapleton
After Superstorm Sandy hit New York in October 2013, power outages covered large swaths of the city.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Marianne McCune
London's little-known Memorial of Heroic Self-Sacrifice commemorates ordinary men, women and children who made a split-second decision to rescue another person – and died as a result.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Cathy FitzGerald
This hour: we present two very different stories about the Texas State Penitentiary. Both are about soul — the kind you dance to, and the kind you pray for.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Vivienne Perry
- Matt Holzman
- Katie Mingle
On August 24, 1992, Hurricane Andrew slammed into Miami-Dade County changing the landscape of South Florida forever.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Alicia Zuckerman
- Dan Grech
- Kenny Malone
- Sammy Mack
- Trina Sargalski
The Supreme Court case Adoptive Couple v. Baby Girl seemed like a straightforward custody dispute: a birth father and a couple at odds over who would raise baby Veronica.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Tim Howard
Doug Harlow isn't afraid to use his voice. He was a street poet in Boston and protested the Vietnam War in D.C. There was a time he could say "I love you" in a dozen languages.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Emily Kwong
This hour: the story of Sandra Willson.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Catherine Freyne
- Katie Mingle
An old cassette, tucked away for years in the back of a drawer, magically brings a lost voice back to life.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Eleanor McDowall
- Jude Rogers
At the stroke of 10am PT on August 17th, 2013, producers around the world lept into action.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Bob Carlson
- Cristina Parry
This week: dreams and dreamers of all kinds - lucid, fictional, public and elusive.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Neva Grant
- Sean Cole
- Joe Frank
- Nate DiMeo
In certain waters, moments of connection between humans and whales do happen... but not often.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Jennifer Kingsley
We have winners!
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Alix Blair
- Jenny Asarnow
- Kelly Jones
- Mary T. Diorio Schilling
- Sam Agee
This week: the mother reigns supreme.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Erin O'Dwyer
- The Kitchen Sisters
- Katie Mingle
You may have been a "freelancer," or hired one, at some point in your work life, but have you ever wondered how the term originated?
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Colette Kinsella
Ramblin' Jack Elliott has played music with legends like Woody Guthrie, Johnny Cash and Bob Dylan.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Abby Wendle
- Sarah Geis
This hour: what happens when we open our ears to the surprising symphonies all around us.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Jill DuBoff
- Nina Perry
- Charles Maynes
- Paolo Pietropaolo
- Katie Mingle
Growing up in Australia, deaf in one ear, Rick had a rough time learning.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Jesse Cox
- Mike Williams
This hour: we explore two struggling Texas towns through the beautiful and mournful voices of those who remain.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Pejk Malinovski
- Katherine Wells
- Katie Mingle
Olga likes borscht. Ryan Poli at work, and Leah Cowen asks the musical question "Can You Feed My Appetite?"
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Frank Karall
How to prepare the best English class in Paris.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Jane Weston's English class
Helping to create a conscience, informing people of the world's biggest injustice, and promoting social responsibility.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Mohammed Nagi
Legend has it that on July 4, 1916, four immigrants had a hot dog eating contest at Coney Island to determine the most patriotic; Crazy Legs Conti is the ultimate American.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Jeng-Tyng (Jen) Hong
There's a feeling you get when you encounter a swarm of insects.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Lulu Miller
A story about the emotional coupling of love and coffee.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Jason Lovell
- William Thwaites
Three stories in French: poison, horrible cookies and a cannibal.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Laurence Courtois
Our passions win out in the end when we choose our future careers.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Lucas Nielsen
What happens when you stop eating dessert but can't bring yourself to say "No" to people's generosity?
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Maxine Bergevin
A personal narrative attempting to better understand my relationship with food.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Henry Cohn-Geltner
Martha, a half-Chinese, half-Uruguayan Italian citizen, finds home where she least expects it.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Carly Nix
There are only 3 Rules to Lunch Club...
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Ian Davis and Mwende Hahesy
An interview with Lara Moreau, inventor of "ALI."
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Shelby El Otmani
Sarah Riley leaves Los Angeles to help out her sister in Oklahoma but not before her neighbor Tim has Sister Sarah over for some spaghetti.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Tim Forrest
A look at how our appetites can take perverse shapes and make us see our bodies in a completely different way.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Kerry Gilfillan
You need a lot to accomplish your dreams, but it is your choice to pursue it or not.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Lauren Vieni
- Mercedes Lopez
- Michael Abramczyk
A chicken goes on a journey to find his life's destiny and succeeds.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Elisa Medina and Allison Tempkin
- Lauren Vieni
- Michael Abramczyk
2013 ShortDocs Winner! David channels his frustrated desires into detailed fantasies for the perfect sensual feast.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Jenny Asarnow
Robert Lipman, a freshman at the University of Chicago who also runs an underground pop-up gourmet restaurant in Hyde Park, discusses the surprising, nearly fatal reason for his insatiable appetite to serve high-end food.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Tanya Basu
A milestone birthday inspires an extreme juice quest.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Sydney Beveridge
Three Franco-Americans in Maine still have an appetite for their culture's humble cuisine, which isn't esteemed like fancy French food.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Laura McCandlish
Rachel Steinhardt encounters an unexpected memento of her grandmother's life.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Will Coley
Behind the scenes at a dairy cow auction in Old Chatham, New York.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Laura Hadden
- Tennessee Jane Watson
Three acts of This Umamican Life here in Austin, TX in the style of This American LIVE, the live theatre show inspired by This American Life.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Jeff Brit
- Michael Ferstenfeld
- Tiffany Leigh
MRs. TasTy LanDed hEr Vegetarian SPace StaTioN in the MidWesT and StarTed heR CooKing ShoW; ToDaY ShE TeACheS uS AbOuT KimChi.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Lauren Kirby
One man has an appetite for alcohol.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Tawar Razaghi, Miles Martignoni and Lucie Robson
Katherine was a vegetarian and thought she hated meat -- until she tasted elk.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Benjamin Bombard
- Philip Bombard
A young veteran shares stories of appetite during his years in the military.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Wenjing Zhang
The case for why we crave pop music as part of our musical diet.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Jackie Sojico
A love story about food, a food story about love in three courses: poutine, foie gras, bone marrow.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Sara Ananda Badger
Some decisions are easily forgotten, well others will stick with you always.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Paige Sutherland
A story about my dad, and how life eventually altered his appetite.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Grant Buhr
Erica Bland wishes she didn't have to travel so far to eat at her favorite restaurants.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Susie An
What if you could bottle time, shove it in a cellar for twenty years and break it out at dinner parties?
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Ryan McLeod
Raima Fernald's two sons were born with a debilitating neurological disease - one found a way out.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Peter Frick-Wright
A lady lacking a sweet tooth does her bit for those with malnutrition, by losing - and finding - her appetite.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Kirsty McQuire
The Sichuan Peppercorn provides a confusing, disorienting and compelling flavor to the spicy cuisine of Sichuan.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Jeff Towne
What happens when the only foods you'll eat are French fries, peanut butter, and pizza - but you're a grown-up? - an exploration of adult extreme picky eating.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Cody Anderson
- Molly Jackel
- Selena Polston
Trying to pull back with one hand the one you pushed away with both.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- John Manini
The forgotten story of the Great Peshtigo Fire of 1871 told in three courses: the calm before the storm, the firestorm's appetite, and the recovery.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Paul Zenke & Adam Malecek
An exploration of the role of appetite in elderly health as well as the scientific basis of umami (also known as L-glutamate or glutamic acid), with ukelele accompaniment.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Patricia McMillen
My friend Ben eats his first lobster roll while we're on tour in Portland, Maine.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Alex Lewis
- Alex Lewis
Danny can't eat wheat, barley, rye, oats, corn, potatoes...
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Paula Friedrich
A candid conversation with a former lover about my appetite for romance, relationships, and love.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Brian Cauley
One night in the life of our 8 month old daughter, June.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Matt Largey
Matthew is like every normal teenager with a hunger for independence, but he faces a few unique challenges.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Manda Lillie
An insatiable passion for keeping lists brings order to each new day... and prepares for the next.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Java Bere
- Jon Tipler
Writer Zarina Zabrisky talks about her family's history and how it informed her relationship with food.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Sayre Quevedo
After generous winter rains the Sonoran Desert offers up wild rhubarb, and ethnobotanist Martha Ames Burgess knows where to look for it and how to turn it into a juicy desert dessert.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Laura Markowitz
Our curiosity begs the question, "How did I get here?" and our eating habits answer it.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Caryn Berman
When Joanne decided to spice up her diet, she got a little more than she bargained for.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Jessica Miller
Scott Barber aka Lumberjockey discovered at 15 that he needs to pay close attention to everything that goes into his body.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Julia Grant
- Scott Barber
A visit to the weekly Friday Food Pantry at Benton House.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Alyssa Moxley
This hour: stories of people in love, who just wouldn't take 'no' for an answer.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Michael Garofalo
- Jasmyn Belcher Morris
- Kirsti Melville
- Jonathan Mitchell
- Katie Mingle
Instructions on how to recreate my grandmothers' favorite meals.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Jennie Lennick
The Hare Krishna Temple offers a free meal, in the hopes that those who visit will leave with a satisfied appetite; physically, mentally, and spiritually.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Erin Connolly
After listening to friends give their ideas on the word 'appetite,' I realized just how much anorexia has changed my view.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Emma French
The sunny bike ride that taught one young woman the painful difference between taste and flavour.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Charlotte McDonald
This is a story about adventuring, eating vegan food and smoking weed with your partner.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Leanne Butkovic
- Scott Fitzpatrick
IBS is gross, funny and crappy (pun intended) to live with and it tries to dictate my life.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Kristofor Husted
The Dolemouse: a nutty study on optimal foraging theory.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Jane Cramer
When your appetite is for nature and for unusual sounds then you have to go on the odd adventure...
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Geoff McQueen
A talk with Amos and Ruth in their kitchen as they share their excitement for food and speculate on how it will be passed on to the next generation.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Dea Cisar
Mental and physical acts of eating, how are you satisfied?
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Carly Kenneally
Somchai Sriweawnetr's quick thinking and courage helped to save 5 Americans in 1979 Iran.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Catherine Louli
Two producers explore the hungers generated from living on an island in Alaska and some attempts at satisfying them.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Elise Pepple and Ellen Frankenstein
A tale, fearsome and salty, of restricting restrictions told from the safe side of a youth, that is, beyond it.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Julia Murphy
In three courses, we discover the relationship between man and grease: the history, the culture and the conflict.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Jackson Stanton
Alex Lane subjects himself to a five alarm chili shock treatment in an effort to resurrect the olfactory system that he's never known.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Bec Feldhaus & Shelly Baskin
Once the child of a family living in poverty in Hong Kong, Barry Chung is now a professor at Indiana University.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Lena Morris
As he pursued a pro cycling career, the formula that helped J also hurt him, too.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Sarah Lu
Elaine Taylor's brother Clark has kidney disease - and it's been progressing for years.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Elaine Taylor and Clint Holgate
An automated teller machine discusses awkward moments, consumer culture and why she needs it to survive.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Aoife Allen
Road Rage is transformed by Passionately Prepared Comestibles.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Phyllis Janik
Lorraine explores what happens when the body gets an appetite for itself.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Lorraine Boissoneault
Having a long distance relationship is like having the best yet never satisfying three-course meal over and over again.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Maja Mackintosh Johansen
One new mother explains how her eating habits have changed as she develops her unborn baby's appetite.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Morgan Davis
A sweet encounter on the Irish Sea, retold at table.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Sean Mullervy
The fate of every farm animal, in three parts: life, death, and consumption.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Carla Green, Vanessa Vyvial and Anthony Abbondanza
Kerry Klein brings reclaimed food to a potluck - and doesn't tell anyone.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Kerry Klein
Bartleby's appetite for fun sets he and his brother Artemus on their way for their smallest adventure yet, into the game room for an unexpectedly flavorful time.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Isaac Bluefoot
2013 ShortDocs Winner! A short story in sounds of our food's start to finish, from morning to night (though not necessarily in the same day!)
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Alix Blair
Chronicling my love for snacks amidst my relocation from the U.S. to Cairo, Egypt.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Kim Fox
"Bottled hell" is a local term for the blow-your-socks off spicy datil pepper sauce ubiquitous in St. Augustine, FL.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Anna Hamilton
Kurt Callum woke up one morning and realized he had gone fourteen days straight without thinking even once of his ex or their bitter break-up.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Maxine Bergevin
A young girl rants about annoyances that are brought up frequently in her daily life while listing why her way of living is superior to most others.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Emily Hartman
- Lauren Vieni
- Michael Abramczyk
Maximus Thaler has an interesting relationship with food.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Abigail Collins
- Victoria Bedford
Weirdo Records is a closet-sized vinyl shop in Cambridge, Massachusetts where Angela Sawyer hosts experimental music concerts, for those with a unique and unorthodox musical taste.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Brittany Gervais
- Victoria Bedford
For most New Yorkers being surrounded by food is a blessing, but for one boy in Queens it's tormenting.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Will Denselow
The founder of Patric Chocolate finds his way to love and sweets in an unexpected way.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Scott Pham
Once a year my extended family comes together for three courses in tradition: making latkes, dinner conversation and finally, the ongoing memories we create together during our annual Hanukkah party.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Bari Finkel
My neighbor Ellen swings a classic (from the I Hate to Cook Book, circa 1960.)
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Stephanie Rowden
At a Passover dinner, two friends celebrate their exodus from a fundamentalist Hasidic community.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Frimet Goldberger
When we feel bad we often make ourselves feel worse when better is so much easier than we think.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- AnnMarie Miller
My mom has been making homemade bread for as long as I can remember; here is her recipe.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Caytlinn Strickland
Based on excerpts from a diary of an anorexic 16-year-old.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Bridget Doherty
What happens when you try to order 'the usual' at your neighborhood joint - and can't?
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Jennifer Kirby
A regular at Victory's Banner restaurant in Roscoe Village, Marge Stumpf doesn't show up one day.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Logan Jaffe
Shannon Coffin of Good Shepherd Food Bank talks about the fight against child hunger in Maine.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Leah Kaliher
The locavore movement is sweeping the nation - and cookbook author Jennifer Thompson and a farmers market vendor explain why fresh eggs are the best eggs.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Casey Kuhn
When it comes to appetite, our bodies can have several personalities and each part wants its say.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Sharlene Newman
Three chapters about different cravings of life told by three different people.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Shahd Saleh
Get a taste of sweetness of three desserts from three different continenets around the world.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Sarah Saad
Clyde Biggins lost everything, but now he's back to reclaim his spot among barbecue legends.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Carol Shih
- David Chong
2013 ShortDocs Winner! A bleak future with nothing good to eat... except your gas mask.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Sam Agee
Man's appetite for money may mean the end of three courses for horses.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Eurydice Aroney
- Tom Morton
A documentary story of hating, loving, wanting and making sound.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Elena Guobyte
Ceebu Jen, a traditional dish in the West African country of Senegal, is not as simple to make as it might seem.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Jeff Tyson
An ode to the late great infomercial host and to the realization that we all hunger for something.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Heather Kitching
Guenet Sebsibe shows how she keeps an important Ethiopian cultural tradition alive.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Anne Huang
- Audrey Dilling
My mom and I don't agree on much, but we can agree on one thing - potlucks are the pits.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Lauren Ober
Karen Pearl, CEO of God's Love We Deliver, explains the mission of the organization, and Hassan Mazyan Jr., a client, describes its impact on his life.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Eric Winick
Lisa Zullig and her team of dietitians at God's Love We Deliver provide nutritional assistance to a diverse clientele around the metro-New York City area.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Eric Winick
Chuck Piekarski, Baker at God's Love We Deliver in New York, came to his job after experiencing a personal tragedy -- and now he's giving back.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Eric Winick
Marion Kane explores what awakened Julia Child's passion for food and sparked her celebrity as a chef.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Marion Kane
As a teenager, Marion Kane wanted nothing more than to fit in with her peers.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Marion Kane
Broadcaster Marion Kane travels to Julia Child's home to join her for breakfast.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Marion Kane
Six people working at restaurants near the Boston Marathon explosions share their experiences as they re-open their doors to customers hungry for the city to return to normal.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Emily Files
You can eat a sumptuous three-course meal when you're sick if you use a little bit of imagination.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Nacha Raman
The invention of the microphone changed many aspects of modern life beginning in the late 1800's, but today most of us take these simple machines for granted.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Craig Shank
- George Drake Jr.
Multimedia letters on memories of food pain.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Ellie Gordon-Moershel
A people striving to retain their livelihood and culture.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Kay Collins
A visit to a Jewish assisted living facility to record memories of what people hunger for over the courses of their lives.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Deena Prichep and Joanna Stein
A conversation with my four-year-old son about what would be his favourite dinner and what flavours he would like in it.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Euan McAleece and Ossian McAleece
Steven, a 20-something living in Chicago, shares his appetite for the tough world of sports gambling.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Lisa Carter
The story of an acclaimed chef and mothers journey searching for finding and understanding success.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Holly Smith
- Paige Lee
Former coal miner and mountain man extraordinaire Jay Spencer hunts for aromatic wild leeks in the forest outside Richwood, West Virginia, a lumber town and Ramp Capital of the World.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Joanna Greer
My grandparents had very little in common except for their appetite for couscous.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Marie Telling
If you want to be healthy and fit, you must well inform your appetite.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Yomna Khallaf
A group of well-known East Coast sous chefs tell of their humble beginnings and love of life in the kitchen.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Alyssa Pagano
The story of a lifelong relationship with fast food and the consequences that come with it.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Tim Needles
How to prepare the best English class in Paris.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Jane Weston's English class
A cannibal finds that she no longer has the appetite for the things she used to.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Damian Biniek
- Rachel Lyon
Yeah, we all know how sweet it is when our appetites are satisfied, but what's it like to be a satiator?
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Veronica Simmonds
2013 ShortDocs Winner! No one has an appetite for perfection and swearing like a Québécois in search of poutine.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Kelly Jones
Former military chef Danny Davis takes us through a 24-hour ration pack.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Benedikte Granvig
An audio portrait detailing the effects of a lost appetite on friendship.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Hana Walker-Brown
Tessa has Multiple Sclerosis and is running for her life.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Tessa Dowdell
Lucy Beesley's determination to fight off cancer and live normally has resulted in a life even sweeter than before.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Bryony Hawkins
70% of Tamara's life is about her diet, with one aim: to become the best female bodybuilder in the country.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Julie Thing
If you could pick your own name what would you choose? Three Chinese students living in Australia explain their name choices.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Zena Kells
I almost burned down Dunkin' Donuts trying to cook a bagel for my sister.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Amy Kraft
How an appetite for the wrong foods can kill you, and the role it plays in heart disease (the number one killer of women).
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Linda Darlene (Behl) Brennaman
- Ross Stinemetz
Haley's long list of food allergies have changed her life, but not her positive attitude.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Michela Tindera
Two insiders talk about the underbelly of a documentary film festival, the world of volunteer victuals.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Jagmeet Mac
Traveling the on road to Umami, she wondered who or what she would meet along the way.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Dixie Treichel
With the guidance of an outdoor educator, the producers learn to forage for their supper.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Bridget Bancroft
- Erica Stone
Sweet corn - a great way to get fat and sleepy - is the subject of this true tale of animal, man and machine.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Becky Moonitz
Flowed mellow audio file that is down tempo but upbeat at the same time.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Bernard Capistrano
Spicy kielbasa, sweet cheesecake, and a glass of merlot: the foodstuffs of great and horrible dates.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Catie Talarski
Risk presented in three different courses: 1) Craving 2) We Can't Help It 3) Living Life to the Fullest.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Evie Salomon
You will see things you never even dreamed were there - or how an appetite for orchids is edifying.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Rosy Rickett
Recorded in one take, with only minor effects added.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Youssef Azmy
A true story: when we bought the crack house, we got more than we'd bargained for.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Elizabeth Friend
An expert baker attempts to conquer her greatest fear: funfetti.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Hannah Krakauer
Julia Campbell needs to swim, like most people need to eat.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Jessica Campbell
The story of a young man who has an appetite for adventure and tries to leave home as fast as he can.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Kurt Santana
For Romy Klecker, who spent her childhood in the GDR, sweet food was scarce, but in 1989 when the wall fell, a whole new world of treats opened up to her.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Jennifer Collins and Tam Eastley
A girl with a voracious appetite for chefs samples a taste of true love.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Belinda Lopez
One small town's claim of fame is a local bakery whose pastries have created a strong tradition.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Gabrielle Reed
2013 People's ShortDoc Award Winner! For some South Jersey residents, "Sing a Song of Sixpence" is more than just a nursery rhyme; it's supper.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Mary T. Diorio Schilling
This hour: the American Icons series from WNYC's Studio 360.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- David Krasnow
- Jenny Lawton
- Ave Carillo
- Derek John
- Lu Olkowski
- Katie Mingle
People are shocked when we tell them snails are delicious.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Suzanne El-Cheikh
A mission for lamb leads to an awkward encounter with an affluent neighbor - and Jesus is to blame.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Nicole and Mark Jolly
An exploration of identity through food experiences.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Ricardo Marinez
Most of us go to college to make our dreams happen, but what do you do when what you want might not be the same as what your parents want?
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Lyndi Hollis
Three courses of the Second Street Market at the University of Dayton - the market, the consumers and the producers.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Torie Schumacher
An underground supper club pairs beers with dinners, served in a Mission District apartment kitchen in San Francisco.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Alison Byrne
Michelle Obama's new school lunch program gets sour reviews from Paonia High School students.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Ali Lightfoot
- Azure Eller
An audio prose poem, mixing chocolate with desire.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Richard Fox and Patricia McMillen
The tradition of cooking has been passed down in my family through three generations: my grandma, my mom and me.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Lexia Banks
If D minor were a person, who would she be?
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Denise Ball
- Paolo Pietropaolo
Researchers from the Egyptian TV show Al Bernameg are trying to lose weight, stay fit or just enjoy food at the office.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Christine Iskander
A man remembers a dream, a snack and an idea about sound by filmmaker Robert Bresson.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Wolfgang Hastert
A dry martini in the afternoon proved effective in helping a widowed mother navigate the lonely shoals that lay between 4 and 6 p.m.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Ed Cohen
A proverbial potluck of the soul is prepared by asking local Arcata artists, "If your life was a food dish what would it be?"
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Isaac Bluefoot
The quest to follow the chain of meat production - what happens to that steak before it gets to the plate?
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Julia Stone
- Peter Frick-Wright
Julie and Stacy run the Krispy Kreme Challenge: 5 miles, 12 donuts, 2,400 calories, one hour.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Julie Thomson
Follow Sierra on her progressive college journey as she realizes that finding the right college is as difficult as Goldilocks finding the right bowl of porridge.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Sierra Ponthier
The story of how anosmia (lack of a sense of smell) affects my appetite.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Pauline Dunne
What are folks on the Las Vegas Strip hungry for?
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Aaron Mendelson
Sitting at home, on the last day of the weekend, what can one do but eat everything sweet in the kitchen.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Nada El-Tobgy
A poetry slam poking fun at the absurd "foodie" culture.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Abby Ainsworth
- Lindsay Kutner
It's only human to crave more than the bare essentials in life, but for these vinyl collectors the hunt has become pure addiction.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Alex Kress
My sleeping habits compared to a restaurant menu, including three courses; starter, main dish, dessert.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Basma Abdelhafiz
Moi is a third generation Hawaiian who runs a shack by the side of the road.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Myra Dettelbach
Elizabeth goes on a walk with Andy, her former housemate, and asks him about living off of food from dumpsters.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Elizabeth Delaquess
My father expresses his long-lasting appetite for the guitar and finding that sweet note.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Callie Stewart
Aunt Nuska has lost her appetite and the whole family bonds together to find a remedy for her.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Jeremy W.
- Matt Thomas
My passion, hunger and desire to find my sister; strangely connected through food.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- John Mackniskas
- Maureen Sanchez
Coffee roaster Hans-Erik discusses taste associations and developing a taste vocabulary.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Michael James Lewis
A mother remembers her troubling, unshakeable food addiction.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Julia Scott
Eva Panjwani was five years old when she emigrated from Pakistan to the United States.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Madeline Miller
Will the intrepid detective solve the murder most foul at Tragedy Castle?
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Scott Priz
- Elisa Shoenberger
How does light, sound and language change the perception of food?
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Alex Grant
- Andy Erickson
A television studio executive is challenged to dream up a ludicrous reality TV show idea and succeeds.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Audrey Dilling
- Ben Trefny
For Andrew's sister, eating a hamburger is a sublime experience.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Andrew Norton
We all start out with one appetite, the appetite for our mother's breastmilk.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Sukey Lewis
Hungry for the unknown, a New York City couple experiences their first taste of umami.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Amelia Parenteau
Faced with their impending graduation, three Duke seniors reminisce about their freshman days and remember how a unique community was created around food.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Dillon Buckner
Writer Margy Rochlin wonders why her family is selling her grandmother's house in Arizona.
Year: 1989
Producers:
- Jay Allison
- Margy Rochlin
Longtime New Yorkers recall family cooking traditions and foods from home that have been lost to immigration.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Anne Noyes Saini
A dramatic monologue about one woman's obsession with tea.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Scott Priz
How do you take an animal once on the endangered species list, and turn it into dinner?
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Tina Antolini
This hour: a purple hotel, a family who argues over their skin color, a singing rainbow and more.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Katie Mingle
- Jad Abumrad
- Margy Rochlin
- Bob Carlson
- Lu Olkowski
- Gwen Macsai
- Roman Mars
American Student Radio (ASR) is cultivating your future radio heroes.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Barton Girdwood
- Eddie Suarez
- Lauren DelPrete
- Lauren Linder
- Lynn Beavin
- Rochelle LeBreck
- Sarah Neal-Estes
Form dances with function in this "seriously uncompromising"* and seriously compelling piece not so much about John Cage, as of the composer, music theorist, mycologist and artist, John Cage.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Chris Abrahams
- Rick Moody
- Sherre DeLys
This hour: the story of a harrowing journey on the Mediterranean Sea that started with high hopes and ended in tragedy.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Sharon Davis
- Geoff Parish
- Sean Mullervy
- Katie Mingle
A principal reflects on a turbulent year: 27 current or former students shot, 8 of them dead.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Linda Lutton
This hour: all things anonymous.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Mad Genius
- Gabriella Lahti
- David Weinberg
There's a tiny town in the Appalachian foothills of Ohio where, for a century, residents have shared the common bond of identifying as African-American despite the fact that most look white.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Lu Olkowski
The Organist is a monthly experimental arts & culture program produced by the editors of the Believer - the award-winning monthly magazine published by McSweeney's.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Andrew Leland
- Jenna Weiss-Berman
- Ross Simonini
This hour: families wrestling with love and loyalty.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Jay Allison
- Erin Davis
- Max Jungreis
- Austin Bunn
- Bob Carlson
- Wendy Dorr
- Katie Mingle
In January, 2012, America's digerati pulled off the broadest, most powerful political protest ever orchestrated on the Internet.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Andrea Seabrook
- Lina Misitzis
This hour: hauntings of war, ethereal recordings, and other ghosts of Vietnam.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Christina Egloff
- Jay Allison
- Cathy FitzGerald
- Katie Mingle
This hour: Gwen Macsai and Julie Shapiro spin some of our favorite stories from the 2012 Third Coast ShortDocs Challenge.
Year: 2012
Producers:
- Katie Klocksin
- Sigrid Saabye
- Alix Blair
- Jane Cramer
- Mary Helen Miller
- Julie Shapiro
- Eve Abrams
- Adam Kampe
- John Musto
- Brian Barnhart Jr
- Abby Wendle
- Luke Eldridge
- Katie Mingle
After the death of his wife, renowned blacksmith artist Steve Weis moved from Toowoomba to Kin Kin on the Sunshine Coast in Queensland, Australia.
Year: 2013
Producers:
- Hamish Sewell
Smartphones and other gadgets have detached our listening experiences from the radio, and are making another kind of attachment possible - to where the stories actually take place.
Year: 2012
Independent producers have always had to fend for themselves, but today the building blocks for independent success - creating great work, reaching real audiences, making money, controlling your destiny - are falling into place in new ways.
Year: 2012
Independent producers have always had to fend for themselves, but today the building blocks for independent success - creating great work, reaching real audiences, making money, controlling your destiny - are falling into place in new ways.
Year: 2012
Now a bonafide Third Coast tradition... this session pulls back the curtain on one of the most difficult and important skills every producer needs to master: pitching a story.
Year: 2012
Now a bonafide Third Coast tradition... this session pulls back the curtain on one of the most difficult and important skills every producer needs to master: pitching a story.
Year: 2012
This hour: We dedicate most of the show to a profile of Mavis Gallant, who at 90, is looking back on an extraordinary life.
Year: 2012
Producers:
- Megan Williams
- Nate DiMeo
- Katie Mingle
When radio producers and photographers team up on multimedia projects, it can often feel as if they come from different planets.
Year: 2012
(aka: State of the Re:Union's Secret Recipe for Serious Place-based Storytelling... in Practically No Time!)
Year: 2012
Imagine reporting in a culture that speaks a language your listeners don't understand, and covering issues your listeners don't totally care about - all in a country that doesn't even want you there in the first place.
Year: 2012
Kickstarter is the world's largest funding platform for creative projects. Art program director Stephanie Pereira gives a primer on how to bring an audio-centric Kickstarter project to life.
Year: 2012
Okay. So you don't have months to craft a perfect story. You have hours. But don't throw away everything you've learned at Third Coast just because you're on a tight deadline.
Year: 2012
Producers:
- Robert Smith
Our digital age has catalyzed a kind of chemical reaction: the fission of radio into two related but distinct media, Audio and Radio.
Year: 2012
Over the past year, we've seen several major scandals cutting to the heart of journalistic and documentary ethics.
Year: 2012
Re:sound's Gwen Macsai hosts Best of the Best: The 2012 Third Coast Festival Broadcast, showcasing the best radio stories of the year - winners of the 2012 TC/RHDF Competition.
Year: 2012
Producers:
- Marianne McCune
- Jonathan Mitchell
- Natalie Kestecher
- Gregory Warner
- Joe Richman
- Samara Freemark
- Sue Jaye Johnson
- Katie Mingle
Re:sound's Gwen Macsai hosts Best of the Best: The 2012 Third Coast Festival Broadcast, showcasing the best radio stories of the year - winners of the 2012 TC / Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Competition.
Year: 2012
Producers:
- Yowei Shaw
- Allison Swaim
- Laurence Grissell
- Brian Reed
- Habiba Nosheen
- Katie Mingle
This hour: Storied pasts and double lives.
Year: 2012
Producers:
- Sarah Lu
- Nick van der Kolk
- Brendan Baker
- Nate DiMeo
- Katie Mingle
In early 2012, Third Coast teamed up with the neighborhood-centric website EveryBlock, and issued a wide-open invitation to make radio.
Year: 2012
Drawing from radio and beyond, Jad Abumrad shared the stories, sounds, people and projects that have most inspired him over the years, and talked about some of the creative challenges he's faced (and embraced) along the way.
Year: 2012
Ira Glass brought the first day of the 2012 Third Coast Conference to a close with an audio night cap, by sharing his favorite moments from the year's Third Coast winners and other stories.
Year: 2012
This hour: people who start out as bitter enemies and end up in places you could never predict.
Year: 2012
Producers:
- Anna Sussman
- Mignon Aylen
- Jasmyn Belcher Morris
Each week on Wireless Nights, pop star Jarvis Cocker prowls the dark, finding stories of the night people.
Year: 2012
Producers:
- Laurence Grissell
There are two main things that happen when you go to the doctor - you deal with your health concerns and you fill out a small mountain of paperwork.
Year: 2012
Producers:
- Gregory Warner
When Yowei Shaw was in college, her parents' relationship began to change.
Year: 2012
Producers:
- Yowei Shaw
Each year, over 100 million tons of iron ore, coal, limestone and other products travel through the Great Lakes navigation system on huge cargo ships.
Year: 2012
Producers:
- Allison Swaim
- Cecilia Vaisman
While traditional street photography usually catches strangers passing by in a public space, the photographer Michele Iversen has been catching strangers passing by in their own private spaces, without their permission.
Year: 2012
Producers:
- Jonathan Mitchell
A decade ago, WNYC's news team spent days, months, and then years reporting on the World Trade Center attacks and their aftermath.
Year: 2012
Producers:
- Emily Botein
- Marianne McCune
Ever noticed it's the hard decisions that are often the easiest ones to make, and the inconsequential ones that can twist you into a knot?
Year: 2012
Producers:
- Natalie Kestecher
In 1982, the Guatemalan military massacred the villagers of Dos Erres, killing more than 200 people.
Year: 2012
Producers:
- Brian Reed
- Habiba Nosheen
Sixteen-year-old Claressa Shields has a dream, to be at the 2012 Olympic finals and hear the announcer call out, "The first woman Olympian boxer at 165 pounds - Claressa Shields!"
Year: 2012
Producers:
- Joe Richman
- Samara Freemark
- Sue Jaye Johnson
We have Gold! We have Silver! And Bronze! And Honorable Mentions, Directors' Choice, Best News Feature and Best New Artist!
Year: 2012
Producers:
- 2012 Winners
This hour: As the James Bond franchise celebrates its 50th year, we get at what's been driving him all this time - the beat.
Year: 2012
Producers:
- Russell Stapleton
- Libby Douglas
- Katie Mingle
Meet Eduardo Bechara (from Colombia) and Eduardo Bechara (from Argentina).
Year: 2012
Producers:
- Camila Segura
This hour: Two stories of people who are far away — physically, emotionally and/or spiritually from the place they call home.
Year: 2012
Producers:
- Dmae Roberts
- Delaney Hall
- Katie Mingle
It's French. It's all online. It's pretty much Radio 2.0...
Year: 2012
Producers:
- Silvain Gire
This hour: we'll bob from the biggest maritime disaster that you've never heard of, to a man who saved thousands of shipboard lives with a deceptively simple design.
Year: 2012
Producers:
- Susan Marling
- Roman Mars
- Sam Greenspan
- Allison Swaim
- Katie Mingle
For the first time, I visit the neighborhood skeet shoot at the American Legion Post across the road.
Year: 2012
Producers:
- Sam Fuqua
What it's like to be neighbors in a space that's nine inches wide.
Year: 2012
Producers:
- Linda Lutton
I currently live in a studio apartment (see photo) with two of my closest girlfriends--Jenni Fenton and Nikki Jolin, and this is what our humble home sounds like.
Year: 2012
Producers:
- Becky Vevea
From Lake Shore Drive to Tokyo... surviving the Continuous Cut.
Year: 2012
Producers:
- John Lietzau
Cub reporter Leila is keeping a keen eye on Drake Avenue, especially one particular family.
Year: 2012
Producers:
- Julie Shapiro
Rudy has lived on this bizarre little block since 1953, before a dozen railroad tracks and nearly as many highway lanes separated it from other residential neighborhoods.
Year: 2012
Producers:
- Jennifer Brandel
What does it mean to be a good neighbor? And do we actually know the people living around us?
Year: 2012
Producers:
- Catie Talarski
A morning walk leads to neighbours never thought of in a neighbourhood much bigger than it seems.
Year: 2012
Producers:
- Colm Coyne
The legendary Mr. Rogers was everybody's favorite neighbor... except for maybe my friend Sarah.
Year: 2012
Producers:
- Milos Balac
From visceral empathy to intellectual understanding to emotional compassion, find out how you can realize that far-off, poverty-stricken, deathly ill, brown people are your neighbors, too.
Year: 2012
Producers:
- Mateo Hinojosa
Much more than black or white, the story of a painted horse told around an Amish table.
Year: 2012
Producers:
- Emily Newton
It's bloody, it's loud, and it smells like manure — Madani Halal is an unlikely gathering place, yet dozens of New Yorkers flock to the Queens business daily
Year: 2012
Producers:
- Mollie Bloudoff-Indelicato
Sometimes it's a blessing to have noisy neighbours.
Year: 2012
Producers:
- Geoff McQueen
A voice collage with the words and ideas of three of my neighbors currently living near a peninsula that is about to be developed for a new minor league basketball arena, hotel, parking garage, and possibly even a nature trail in Portland, Maine.
Year: 2012
Producers:
- Caroline Losneck
Sometimes, the greatest musical treasures are in our own backyard.
Year: 2012
Producers:
- Chris Trimmer
Cities are crowded, busy places, so crowded and so busy that parallel universes can occupy the same spaces, and when they overlap, it can be problematic, or even catastrophic.
Year: 2012
Producers:
- Kimberly Haas
As a new resident of one of the oldest neighborhoods in Portland, Maine, I set out one day armed with a recorder and mic in hopes of meeting some of my new neighbors.
Year: 2012
Producers:
- Laura Candler
Hitchcock's Rear Window revisited through my own rear window.
Year: 2012
Producers:
- Caterina Clerici
A homeless man is a modern day town crier in downtown Boston.
Year: 2012
Producers:
- Katharine Broida
The first in an occasional audio documentary series exploring the history, people, places and traditions of North Shore Country Day School (NSCDS) in Winnetka, IL.
Year: 2012
Producers:
- David Green
We explore the subtle effects of noise pollution on our daily lives.
Year: 2012
Producers:
- Andy Cox
I visited my old elementary school and went to an art class full of second graders .
Year: 2012
Producers:
- Stephen Key
Neighbors on a New Orleans street corner investigate a peculiar noise that everyone hears, but no one can find it.
Year: 2012
Producers:
- Laine Kaplan-Levenson
When our cat, Cake, went missing, we immediately suspected our elderly neighbor, Mary.
Year: 2012
Producers:
- Sarah Bromer
A Nigerian woman discusses how science and coffee have provided stability amidst all her struggles.
Year: 2012
Producers:
- David Hovar
The unlikely story of one man's role in the rise of Chicago hip hop.
Year: 2012
Producers:
- Sophia Posnock
Teri La Roca looks out for the peeps in our hood, especially our neighbors that some disregard and would rather forget.
Year: 2012
Producers:
- Tennessee Watson
Martha White interviewed her friend Jessica Chapin at Santa Monica's Step Up on Second, a psychosocial rehabilitation and support program for people affected by severe and persistent mental illness.
Year: 2012
Producers:
- Sara Harris
Little did I know that my neighbor has a special gift, which I'd like to call a beautiful brown burden.
Year: 2012
Producers:
- Ashley Kim
Virginia Miller and her husband Tim recount the night a tornado hit Apison, Tenn., and how it changed their relationship with their neighbors.
Year: 2012
Producers:
- Mary Helen Miller
Twice a week, New York City car owners participate in a bizarre ritual that pits neighbor against neighbor in a competitive fight for parking spaces.
Year: 2012
Producers:
- Elizabeth Harball
Being a neighbor can mean having a duty, but it's not always that simple.
Year: 2012
Producers:
- Natalie Rothfels
Try to understand where people are coming from before you decide about them.
Year: 2012
Producers:
- Diedra Roesijadi
Every week, my roommate Olivia goes to the gym down the street to punch people and while she may be like one of the guys when she's in the ring, friends and family don't quite understand.
Year: 2012
Producers:
- Lindsey Kratochwill
It's a terrible, beautiful affliction, with no known cure.
Year: 2012
Producers:
- Eileen Heyes
Someone's Screaming Outside revisits the rainy Florida night George Zimmerman met Trayvon Martin, using only 911 calls from that evening and musical samples from YouTube videos reacting to the tragedy.
Year: 2012
Producers:
- Mad Genius
2012 ShortDocs Winner! The familiar faces of the red, white and blue bus, whose lives I will never know.
Year: 2012
Producers:
- Luke Eldridge
A neighborhood rooster searches for his lost mate and awakens fresh grief.
Year: 2012
Producers:
- Mary T. Diorio Schilling
Warfare breaks out between neighbors when a burgeoning battalion of peacocks ravish the countryside.
Year: 2012
Producers:
- Ellen Stewart
I take one place, look at what or who lived there over a very very long period of time, and give you the edited highlights.
Year: 2012
Producers:
- Marnie Chesterton
A brief look at a neighborhood many have lived in, but no one stays in for long.
Year: 2012
Producers:
- Abigail Keel
The internet through the eyes of an inhabitant of the past...
Year: 2012
Producers:
- Helena de Groot
Looking down the block on a street in east Africa, one can see much farther than one might expect.
Year: 2012
Producers:
- Jefferson Mok
A neighbor is murdered, but the other neighbors can't figure out who he was.
Year: 2012
Producers:
- Laura Mayer
A former suburbanite shares a pint of gin and juice on her front porch with her new neighbor in the city.
Year: 2012
Producers:
- Carol Narigon
- Will Davis
The nature of the current relationships between neighbors in Egypt and how it changed from how it used to be in the past.
Year: 2012
Producers:
- Gehad Mahmoud
A college student describes the two sides of herself in her struggle with bipolar disorder.
Year: 2012
Producers:
- Bianca Giaever
A discussion amongst neighbors one late night at the non-stop market on the corner street.
Year: 2012
Producers:
- Mara Maracinescu
A personal musing about estrangement and its effects on language, cultural identity, and the meaning of home.
Year: 2012
Producers:
- Joanne Lam
A look at what happens when nine individuals have to share one small fridge, and the challenges and issues that come up as a result.
Year: 2012
Producers:
- Chris Pearson
When we bought our dream fixer-up home on Gilman Terrace, my husband and I knew that it came with sad past--but we weren't prepared, when we unlocked the door, to find a house full of someone else's life.
Year: 2012
Producers:
- Katherine Perry
How little we know of the people who share our roof.
Year: 2012
Producers:
- Alison Broverman
FNSS (Friendly Neighborhood Surveillance System) delivers a report to Charles on Mrs. Smotherson, Mr. Eggerly, and Bruce & Denny.
Year: 2012
Producers:
- Zachary Baiel
A portrait of a mother and daughter, born forty years apart.
Year: 2012
Producers:
- Yarn AudioWorks
A portrait of Anna, who lives one floor below me, and her hamster.
Year: 2012
Producers:
- Yarn AudioWorks
This is the story of why you should never, ever, ever paint your balcony battleship grey.
Year: 2012
Producers:
- Danielle Nerman
College students in my dorm recount how their parents met.
Year: 2012
Producers:
- Bianca Giaever
While at my nearby Key Foods gathering ambient sound, I happened upon this neighbor family drama set to the grocery store's soundtrack.
Year: 2012
Producers:
- Audrey Quinn
Someone's been smoking in my building, and I want them to stop.
Year: 2012
Producers:
- Chris Berube
Over ten years ago, two strangers were drawn together by a neighborhood handball court in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn.
Year: 2012
Producers:
- Marisa Wong
How one convenience store and its singing proprietor can change the atmosphere of a street.
Year: 2012
Producers:
- Rosy Rickett
Now living in a comparatively peaceful community in Fargo, ND, Ermina Jelovac from Bosnia exposes the almost overnight change in her neighbors during the war.
Year: 2012
Producers:
- Brad Delzer
- Erika Lorentzsen
Just a little of my world in encounters with neighbors on the white stairs of my building that has no elevator!
Year: 2012
Producers:
- Pedro Garbellini da Silva
Three neighbors in Fargo, ND, talk about the rapid coloring in of a town in the Great White North.
Year: 2012
Producers:
- Brad Delzer
- Erika Lorentzsen
A night like any other in an unusual life.
Year: 2012
Producers:
- Chris Savell
- Justin Perleoni
Moving in with strangers in a new city can be difficult but building a relationship with their pets can be an experience in itself, even if that pet is named after a famous actor.
Year: 2012
Producers:
- Mike Williams
90 year old Elsie remembers her dancing days before she met her husband 63 years ago.
Year: 2012
Producers:
- Aaron Sand
Hell and high water came, but Hurricane Katrina couldn't knock out one strong-willed Mississippi family.
Year: 2012
Producers:
- Emily Liner
We posed the question "What would you do if you were mother nature?" to our teenage neighbors and our piece features a compilation of the diverse answers we received.
Year: 2012
Producers:
- Alexandros Zervos
- Djinnie Timoleon
No music, no human voices, computers are the future.
Year: 2012
Producers:
- Chris Pollard
Photographer Gaylord Herron has traveled all over the world photographing different cultures, but he's also found fulfillment in his own backyard.
Year: 2012
Producers:
- Abby Wendle
2012 ShortDocs Winner! Neighbors of the Murrah Federal building recall the 1995 bombing that altered the life and culture of Oklahoma City.
Year: 2012
Producers:
- Abby Wendle
Residents of a quiet Santa Monica apartment building remember their neighbor, Charlie -- also known as notorious Boston crime boss James "Whitey" Bulger -- in this darkly comic piece.
Year: 2012
Producers:
- Eric Drachman
- Gideon Brower
I've lived in Melbourne's suburban inner west for five years, walked my street of redbricks and weatherboards every day, but never stopped to listen until now. This is my street.
Year: 2012
Producers:
- Jaye Kranz
There are two types of neighbors: those with dogs and those without dogs.
Year: 2012
Producers:
- Zena Kells
While many people find their small feline neighbours endearing, this is the story of a man who finds them frightening.
Year: 2012
Producers:
- Michael Savic
The house on the corner has an eccentric paint job. Who's behind it?
Year: 2012
Producers:
- Lynne Segal
- Paul Exarhos
- Zac Cranko
Blue Blood on the Boulevard is a short story highlighting the light and shade of a neighborhood; the sociable, family-orientated neighbor on one side and the cheating, scheming one on the other – with horrific consequences.
Year: 2012
Producers:
- Michael Boland
Asking people from her community to make a statement beginning with the words "I dream of," Australian documentarist Phoebe Hart curates these fragments and creatively envisages the literal and figurative world of dreams, arresting our collective hopes, desires and fears.
Year: 2012
Producers:
- Phoebe Hart
Sometimes neighbours impact our lives -- even when, at first, we don't notice.
Year: 2012
Producers:
- Helen Kost
"Reflections on gardening, allotments, and community in a Garden Sunday event at Plot 22 - a nature space, allotment garden, meeting circle, and learning resource."
Year: 2012
Producers:
- Vaska Trajkovska
"Black Box" is a performance art piece based on a confidential survey asking both local and international participants, 'What would your metaphorical black box say?'
Year: 2012
Producers:
- Pascalle Burton
I live next to the Westwood Cemetery in Carrboro, North Carolina and my neighbors are the ghosts who reside there.
Year: 2012
Producers:
- Alix Blair
One morning I looked out my front door and...oh, my, WHAT THE HELL IS THAT?!?
Year: 2012
Producers:
- Bill Ratner
Somebody gets a friendly new neighbor!
Year: 2012
Producers:
- Adrianne Mathiowetz
- Dennis Conrow
The girls upstairs are loud and fun, and one of them is Miss Wicker Park.
Year: 2012
Producers:
- Jessica Speer
A landlord and a tenant inhabit the same building on West 18th Street in the Pilsen neighborhood of Chicago.
Year: 2012
Producers:
- Jennifer Swann
My neighbors read their own words in this piece which spotlights excerpts from an e-mail thread that went out on our neighborhood list-serve, a source of fascination for all involved.
Year: 2012
Producers:
- Laura Herberg
He's not just the Santa Claus-looking guy who walks his dog every day on my street--he's Larry Bauer: carpenter, man-of-letters.
Year: 2012
Producers:
- Scott Pham
Life experiences told by my neighbor and colleague: Chris Nho, the breakdancing math teacher.
Year: 2012
Producers:
- Julie Ma
White Noise is about what happens to the residents when several construction projects invade one block at the same time.
Year: 2012
Producers:
- Pamela Schwartz
- Shannon Geis
Susan and Joe discover just how much the ocean they grew up with meant to them when they are 3,000 miles from home.
Year: 2012
Producers:
- Joseph Molinelli
- Susan Kemp
My neighbor Eddy Jr. shares his love and lament for the neighborhood he's called home all his life.
Year: 2012
Producers:
- Andy Mills
A tree is a precious thing in a city...but does anyone care when a tree in their own backyard is cut down?
Year: 2012
Producers:
- Hannah Ayers
A recollection of my aunt's past and current home.
Year: 2012
Producers:
- Aaron Arreguin
Living next door for years, they soon learn each other's ways, not only to be nosey but also for support.
Year: 2012
Producers:
- Daniel Baker
Characters come out of the woodwork to take the stage at a weekly open mic at The Red Line Tap in the Rogers Park neighborhood of Chicago.
Year: 2012
Producers:
- Tricia Bobeda
2012 ShortDocs Winner! One block from Adam Kampe's apartment sits the Capitol Pool Checkers Club where, each week, men with nicknames like the Hammer, the Pressure Man, and the Razor gather to trash talk over heated games of checkers.
Year: 2012
Producers:
- Adam Kampe
On one block in Chicago's Logan Square neighborhood, an unnamed baker whips up artisan sourdoughs to sell to his neighbors.
Year: 2012
Producers:
- Annie Minoff
Old friends and newly neighbors, Andy and Amanda stalk their Brooklyn block to uncover the mystique of a neighborhood legend who curiously resembles one of baseball's greatest Hall of Famers.
Year: 2012
Producers:
- Amanda Culkowski
- Andrew Trimbach
Homer's Odyssey re-imagined through my neighbors' experiences on the wine-dark sea.
Year: 2012
Producers:
- Whitney Jones
Here's a conversation with my 92 year-old neighbor Liza about how our neighborhood has changed since 1959, with "Mack the Knife" played on ukelele by fellow neighbor Tom Bassett.
Year: 2012
Producers:
- Carol Spindel
Neighbors discuss the safety of where they live in Pavas, San José, Costa Rica.
Year: 2012
Producers:
- Kyle Greufe
After a grueling 35 min dance entitled "Little Mortal Jump" by Alejandro Cerrudo, resident choreographer of Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, dancers Kevin Shannon and Alice Klock reflect on not only their young love duet but the thoughts that cross their mind after the lights have gone out.
Year: 2012
Producers:
- Luke Kyp-Johnson
- Quinlan Kyp-Johnson
A simple neighborly gesture means a lot, in a time of need.
Year: 2012
Producers:
- Mairéad Cullen
- Michael McNamara
When you ask someone an impossible question, be prepared to listen closely for your answer.
Year: 2012
Producers:
- Erin Davis
At the Red House on Maple, ten best friends (including me!) relish in each other's companionship, as the time they have together comes to an end.
Year: 2012
Producers:
- Josh Freund
In a corner of Santa Monica, CA, the Village Trailer Park and its residents face an uncertain future.
Year: 2012
Producers:
- Will Coley
Across the street from my apartment, Elaine Autwell delivers Freedom of Information Act requests to every department in the City of Evanston, a job which has earned her the title of the "Red Envelope Fairy."
Year: 2012
Producers:
- Jonah Newman
This hour: two stories of regular old days that started out static and ended up seismic.
Year: 2011
Producers:
- Michael O'Kane
- Nick van der Kolk
- Benjamin Bombard
- Rehman Tungekar
- Katie Mingle
My neighbor Earl has been a logger all his life; Betty, who lives up the mountain tells me those logging men are known for their sweet tooth, and Earl tells me about his sweetheart.
Year: 2012
Producers:
- Emily Newton
Daily life can be tough for a foreigner living in Japan but luckily Ueko and Hitomi, my neighbors from down the road, are always on hand to offer advice....even when it involves a missing pair of yellow shorts.
Year: 2012
Producers:
- Julien Clancy
Neighbors of Bushwick, Brooklyn are asked, "Which do you prefer, the perfect love or the perfect sandwich?" -- vox pop-style.
Year: 2012
Producers:
- Sejan Yun
In a tiny village the rhythm of life is surprisingly loud, and one neighbour keeps time with his whistle.
Year: 2012
Producers:
- Kevin Speck
- Ramona Stout
The bureaucracy surrounding support for the unemployed is often mindless and ultimately de-humanizing for everyone involved.
Year: 2012
Producers:
- Ellie Richold
- Nina Garthwaite
A woman makes her 'home' at a bus stop across the street from my office, this is my fantasy of what her seemingly miserable life could be the result of.
Year: 2012
Producers:
- Frank Karall
This is a story about getting to know your neighbour, when your neighbour is a sound.
Year: 2012
Producers:
- Veronica Simmonds
Strange visitors to an otherwise unremarkable strip mall on Cape Cod face eviction.
Year: 2012
Producers:
- JP Davidson
The story of how I helped a neighbour move thousands of his tiny friends to a new home.
Year: 2012
Producers:
- Tom Allan
Jo's boys love living on Elliswick Road because of the Tennis Club on the corner, where neighbor Veronica does her bit to help keep things running smoothly.
Year: 2012
Producers:
- Jo Coleman
Hello neighbor the weather is fine outside and my old stuff is all yours all free, well, kind of.
Year: 2012
Producers:
- Jane Cramer
A Canadian arrives in London to find herself living with a Swiss Italian and a Brit who have some quirky secrets; after one week she learns more about what her new neighbours are like.
Year: 2012
Producers:
- Britt Wray
Through their journey down Letaba road, Brandon, Keith, and Jameel quickly realise that appearances may not be the entire story and that there is much more to their neighbours than they think.
Year: 2012
Producers:
- Clemence Petit-Perrot
This is the story of a triangular-shaped green – bordered by busy commuter roads in Dublin, Ireland – which offers a place of sanctuary to more than just people.
Year: 2012
Producers:
- Nancy Previs
Here's the untold story of the origins of Anzac Day.
Year: 2012
Producers:
- David Stephenson
Benct and Rosie are German backpackers who became my neighbours for a weekend when they parked their camper van, "Bussy", outside my house. This is the story of their travels so far...
Year: 2012
Producers:
- James Vyver
Duke, one of the many artists in the historic African American arts district of the Fillmore neighborhood, discusses his surprising first step in becoming an artist.
Year: 2012
Producers:
- Kristina Loring
Bing Fu is an ESL teacher in Toronto, and she tells her story about misunderstanding a word in spite of looking it up in the dictionary.
Year: 2012
Producers:
- Julia Grant
Two neighbors discuss the thing that inspires fear, sweetens our lives, and keeps food on the table.
Year: 2012
Producers:
- Emily Eagle
Your neighborhood Mexican restaurant may have a deeper history than you know.
Year: 2012
Producers:
- Kerry Klein
A man with a microphone meets a small town neighbor on a mission.
Year: 2012
Producers:
- Dave Engen
- Robert Jersak
Gloria's Kitchen feeds the neighborhood.
Year: 2012
Producers:
- Annie Gilbertson
- Lauren Cioffi
Experience the almost-lost memories of a team of journalists from St. Catharines, Ontario.
Year: 2012
Producers:
- Charles Ketchabaw
- Lisa Marie DiLiberto
The time: Ireland, mid 1700s. Young Eleanor Butler is from one of the most notable families in the country and lives in a grand castle.
Year: 2012
Producers:
- Leeanne O'Donnell
- Liam O'Brien
Envy is difficult to avoid... especially between two friends.
Year: 2012
Producers:
- George Drake Jr.
This hour: whether it is a mob of millions or one single voice, nothing changes unless someone stands up and says, "No more."
Year: 2012
Producers:
- Jessie Graham
- Barrett Golding
- David Isay
- Linda Lutton
- Stephanie Foo
- Katie Mingle
What happens when a skylight lets more than light into your apartment?
Year: 2012
Producers:
- Tori Marlan
Ron Padgett and Andrei Codrescu recall a night in 1968, when fellow poet Kenneth Koch was assassinated, or so it seemed, during a reading at St. Mark's Church in New York City.
Year: 2010
Producers:
- Pejk Malinovski
An off-kilter treasure hunt for ideas.
Year: 2012
Producers:
- Kate Norquay
- Shaun D. Wilson
Journalist Ajai Raj muses about art, fact, and truth with his metaphysical neighbors, the notorious dramatist Mike Daisey and Charles Baudelaire, the renowned poet.
Year: 2012
Producers:
- Ajai Raj
2012 ShortDocs Winner! Don Floyd looks back on his life of eighty years, after surviving a heart attack in March of 2012.
Year: 2012
Producers:
- Brian Barnhart Jr
- John Musto
In Chapel Hill, North Carolina, gentrification advances with a cautionary yellow light as a local property manger paints the town his own special hue.
Year: 2012
Producers:
- Nick Andersen
A story about a neighbour, which turns out also to be a story about another neighbour – and when all comes to all: about the narrator herself.
Year: 2012
Producers:
- Sigrid Saabye
I challenged my neighbors to a good old fashioned college chant off!
Year: 2012
Producers:
- Bradley Campbell
This hour: Listening to the night.
Year: 2012
Producers:
- Delaney Hall
- Colette Kinsella
- Mary Beth Kirchner
- Cathy FitzGerald
- Neville Edwards
- George Bodarky
- Katie Mingle
Welcome to Thursday night $1,000 jackpot bingo at The Royal Canadian Legion in the small Rocky Mountain town of Banff, Alberta.
Year: 2012
Producers:
- Alyssa Moxley
In Ireland where the tradition of waking the dead is strong in rural areas, we go behind the scenes of this centuries old tradition.
Year: 2012
Producers:
- softirishrain
St. Louis kinksters demonstrate that an history of lab-based human sexuality studies in the city can be recast as communal, playful, and liberating in the suburbs.
Year: 2012
Producers:
- Daniel Makagon
- Mary R. Gould
East Lake Neighbors wax poetic about their neighborhood mixed in with rhymes from Oakland hip-hop artist DO D.A.T.'s album "Oakland in Blue".
Year: 2012
Producers:
- Dash Hay
The truth behind the white picket fence: A story of neighbors at odds, egos at war, and kids at play
Year: 2012
Producers:
- Cameron Hughes
- Christy Hughes
A recollection of simpler times with the friends I grew up with.
Year: 2012
Producers:
- Noah Vandercook
Under Ernie's Free Tree neighbors and passersby pick from the free pile, the last of Ernie Winger's possessions—recycling, laughing, crying, remembering a generous man who began life as a poor cast-off to become a neighborhood treasure.
Year: 2012
Producers:
- Nancy Camden
With the couple next door constantly fighting and my friends failed marriages in good memory I started to wonder why Sweden seems to fail in loving until death do us part.
Year: 2012
Producers:
- Leni Günther
Louise tries to teach me singing, and Philip speaks about silence and writing.
Year: 2012
Producers:
- Daniel Martin-Borret
Soft footsteps fade to balck is abstract in relation to the conventional form of neighbours, however flashing thoughts and the path can be seen as comfort akin to the world next door.
Year: 2012
Producers:
- Matthew Wilmott
This audio captures the essence of Matthew Wilmott's internal neighbours - silence and recollections/dreams (per say those that that drift dark and heavy in the mind just before sunrise).
Year: 2012
Producers:
- Matthew Wilmott
A couple from Amsterdam East talks about the brown frogs they introduced to the neighborhood. (You might find this english transcript handy!)
Year: 2012
Producers:
- Maartje Duin
Grey Areas is about how close Dave Pickering is to his dad, in a literal sense; it's also a tribute to the the neighbour they buried in his back garden.
Year: 2012
Producers:
- Dave Pickering
This hour: Children try to survive in, and escape from, a Ghanaian slum called Sodom and Gomorrah.
Year: 2012
Producers:
- Jens Jarisch
- Sharon Davis
- Helene Thomas
- Steven Tilley
- Katie Mingle
Growing up poor in Mexico City, Pilar dreamed of reuniting with her father who had moved to America years before.
Year: 2012
Producers:
- Stephanie Foo
A community of music lovers share their experiences with the practice rooms at Allen Hall, a Living and Learning dorm at University of Illinois.
Year: 2012
Producers:
- Kim Peterson
Typical day at the dormitory - the usual sounds that are heard across the hall.
Year: 2012
Producers:
- Alejandro Remigio
A simple scene of sharing language, laughter, songs and daily chores with my neighbours in Kigali, Rwanda.
Year: 2012
Producers:
- Helene Thomas
- Steven Tilley
Meet Juma, a Rwandan street boy, whose dream is to become a singer, and Bosco who spends his days fixing broken plastic buckets, casserole pots, shoes, radios and umbrellas to earn a living for his family.
Year: 2012
Producers:
- Helene Thomas
Here's your typical love story, except for one small detail: the husband is a race horse.
Year: 2012
Producers:
- Jessie Borrelle
- Jon Tjhia
This hour: The Russians are coming! The Russians are coming!
Year: 2012
Producers:
- Jessie Borrelle
- Gregory Warner
- Julia Barton
- Roman Mars
- Katie Mingle
Bullying isn't a new story, but lately, it's all over the news.
Year: 2012
Producers:
- Catie Talarski
- Jones Franzel
One pigeon's emotional journey to understand his neighbors: the seagulls.
Year: 2012
Producers:
- Jocelyn Peirce
This hour: To do lists, compulsive lists, data lists, lists in literature and a list of firsts.
Year: 2012
Producers:
- Sean Cole
- Ashley Ahearn
- Nick van der Kolk
- David Isay
- Roman Mars
- Nate Berg
- Rick Moody
- Michael Hearst
- Whitney Jones
- Katie Mingle
What does an entire city block sound like?
Year: 2012
Producers:
- Aaron Henkin
- Wendel Patrick
This hour: inside the the lives and works of two great American artists, painter Edward Hopper and poet Anne Sexton.
Year: 2012
Producers:
- Judith Kampfner
- Charlotte Austin
- Katie Mingle
While the Internet is teeming with storytelling portals - including the one you're on right now - some rise above the rest: in quality, spirit, and ambition.
Year: 2012
Producers:
- Annie Correal
- Jordan Bower
This hour: The rise of media tycoon, Rupert Murdoch.
Year: 2012
Producers:
- Colin McNulty
- Katie Mingle
By now you've probably heard plenty of stories about "the transformation of a beleaguered Detroit" but we bet you've never heard one like Work in Progress.
Year: 2012
Producers:
- Zak Rosen
At the tender age of 23, Princess Alexandra Amelie of Bavaria (1826-1875) was observed awkwardly walking sideways down the corridors of her family palace.
Year: 2012
Producers:
- Deborah Levy
- Kate Bland
This hour: the drama of sport, the history of sport, the sound of sport and more...
Year: 2011
Producers:
- Laura Starecheski
- Joe Richman
- Bob Carlson
- Peregrine Andrews
- Katie Mingle
The clock ticks; the moon waxes; the autumn leaves turn crimson.
Year: 2011
Producers:
- Sarah Boothroyd
This week: Little feet on big adventures.
Year: 2011
Producers:
- Ronan Kelly
- Paul Russell
- Dominic Girard
This hour: Facing fears in faraway lands.
Year: 2011
Producers:
- Natalie Kestecher
- Katie Mingle
Congratulations to the winners of the 2011 Third Coast/Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Competition!
Year: 2011
Producers:
- 2011 Winners
Best friends Rich Carlson and Tom Swenor got so fed up with the political process in America that they decided to form their own Tea Party chapter in Petoskey, Michigan.
Year: 2011
Producers:
- Ben Calhoun
While in college, Alan fell hard for a fellow art student, Emilie.
Year: 2011
Producers:
- Jad Abumrad
- Robert Krulwich
- Soren Wheeler
As lawmakers continue to debate immigration reform, the Obama administration is pushing for a path to citizenship for those here illegally.
Year: 2011
Producers:
- Marianne McCune
Bob Hill, 86, has been dancing on and off since he was 16 years old.
Year: 2011
Producers:
- Katie Burningham
Most people find hearing their own voices (on voice mails or other recordings) strange, unfamiliar, or even discomforting.
Year: 2011
Producers:
- Andy Mills
This hour: the piano. But not just as a musical instrument. The piano as a spiritual healer, as a symptom in a grand delusion, as a man's obsession, and as a beloved friend, put out to pasture.
Year: 2011
Producers:
- Kate Bland
- Deborah Levy
- Julianne Hazlewood
- Julia Krolik
- Owen Fernly
- Kevin T. Allen
- Katie Mingle
Dallas, the 1980s prime-time soap opera, may have disappeared from American television 20 years ago, but like J.R. Ewing, the show never really died.
Year: 2011
Producers:
- Julia Barton
What happens when you work with sound everyday -- listening to it, recording it, manipulating it -- and then one day, one of those sounds sticks around for good?
Year: 2011
Producers:
- Paolo Pietropaolo
This hour: selling, swapping, buying and trading.
Year: 2011
Producers:
- Rebecca Sheir
- Ned Sublette
- Ben Rubin
- Dan Collison
- Elizabeth Meister
This hour: A dark secret that threatens to tear apart a family.
Year: 2011
Producers:
- Heather Stewart
- Judith Sloan
- Katie Mingle
Jay Thunderbolt's business card is a little mysterious. It reads, "Thunderbolt - Party Naked" and gives a phone number.
Year: 2011
Producers:
- Brendan Baker
- Nick van der Kolk
- Nick Williams
This hour: From the highest fresh water lake in the world to one of the lowest spots on the bowery, we bring you stories of nomadic cultures, peoples and spirits.
Year: 2011
Producers:
- Scott Carrier
- Ben Adair
- Stacy Abramson
- David Isay
- Katie Mingle
This story is a tale of love, betrayal, and a secret.
Year: 2011
Producers:
- Heather Stewart
We may be a bit biased subject-wise, but here's a delightful, sound-rich exploration of an endangered sport and community in Maine that's got it all: history, suspense, expertise and devoted participants both human and winged.
Year: 2011
Producers:
- Rachel James
Sodom and Gomorrah is a hellish place in Accra, Ghana, where children eke out a living on a scrap heap of discarded computers that the West no longer needs.
Year: 2011
Producers:
- Jens Jarisch
- Sharon Davis
This hour: letters. To yourself, to your city, lost letters, found letters... and a love letter to letters.
Year: 2011
Producers:
- Julie Shapiro
- Alan Hall
- Samara Freemark
- Sandhya Suri
- Jason Howard
- Tina Antolini
- Katie Mingle
What would it be like if, in addition to our native languages, we could communicate across cultures in a neutral second language?
Year: 2011
Producers:
- Roman Mars
A college student reflects on an important lesson learned not in the classroom but in the bedroom.
Year: 2010
Producers:
- Emma Miller
A musician, a living legend, attracts pilgrims, then gives them trouble.
Year: 2006
Producers:
- Joseph Decosimo
This is a story about two men and a little baby... well, a big baby actually.
Year: 2011
Producers:
- Kristin Nelson
This hour: Stories about people who lived to be 100, and reflections from producer Neenah Ellis on what she learned from these remarkable centenarians.
Year: 2011
Producers:
- Neenah Ellis
- Katie Mingle
What was the earliest sound ever recorded, or "bottled"? The First Sounds (FS) project, organized by a group of audio historians, scientists, and archivists, is dedicated to exploring these pioneering sounds, and sharing them with the world.
Year: 2011
Producers:
- Chris Trimmer
More than 20 years ago, musicologist Ned Sublette attended the Missouri Auction School in Kansas City, and brought along his tape recorder.
Year: 2011
Producers:
- Ned Sublette
This hour: We showcase some of our favorite stories from the 2010 Third Coast ShortDocs Challenge: Book Odds, and talk to the organizer of the project, Third Coast Artistic Director Julie Shapiro about the rules, the incentives, and our collaboration with widely-acclaimed musical duo, The Books.
Year: 2011
Producers:
- Multiple producers
Everyone knows the riddle: How do you get to Carnegie Hall? And the answer: Practice, practice, practice. But what if you practice, practice, practice, and still don't get there?
Year: 2011
Producers:
- Stanzi Vaubel
This hour: Hustlers. Some are straight-up con artists, and others are just doing what they have to do to get by.
Year: 2011
Producers:
- Ann Heppermann
- Kara Oehler
- Dominic Girard
- Miguelina Diaz
- Kaari Pitkin
- Katie Mingle
Composer, label owner and multi-instrumentalist John Zorn is one of the most beloved (and provocative) American masters of free jazz, improvisation, and musical innovation.
Year: 2011
Producers:
- Steve Shepherd
This hour: climbing, flying and facing your fears.
Year: 2008
Producers:
- Roz Bluett
- Arielle Lasky
- Sarah Boothroyd
- Roman Mars
Cindy Harasen is not the first the first mother to think that her daughter might be from another planet.
Year: 2011
Producers:
- Jody Porter
- Neil Sandell
This week: every country song tells a story and has a story behind it.
Year: 2011
Producers:
- Devon Strolovitch
- David Isay
- Sherre DeLys
- Hal Cannon
- Taki Telonidis
- Gregory Warner
- Katie Mingle
When his mother decided to sell his childhood home, Austin Bunn returned to help clean out the basement and rediscovered traces of a childhood game that never really ended.
Year: 2011
Producers:
- Austin Bunn
A few years ago, radio producer Sarah Reynolds was privy to an intimate confession: her friend Megan told her that she was about to undergo a transition in gender from female to male.
Year: 2011
Producers:
- Sarah P. Reynolds
Slavery in America still exists. In southwest Florida, for example, women and girls from Central America arrive everyday looking for a better life.
Year: 2011
Producers:
- Amy Tardif
Luzer Twersky was raised as a Hasidic Jew. At the age of 23 he decided to leave his family and everything he'd ever known to move into secular society. His upbringing had been strict -- no school, no movies, no dates, no jobs. Otrasized from his community, he entered a world he knew very little about.
Year: 2010
Producers:
- Josh Gleason
In sports, the margin of victory can come down to just thousandths of a second. Ben Rubin interviews several famous track and field stars to explore the mental edge athletes try to develop as they prepare for competition.
Year: 2004
Producers:
- Ben Rubin
This hour: two people shed old skins and resurface in foreign territory.
Year: 2011
Producers:
- Multiple producers
By way of a love letter, Julie Shapiro recounts the incredible racing history of the astonishing, record-breaking mare named Zenyatta. Zenyatta captured the hearts and imaginations of millions and shined a bright spotlight on the American horse racing industry in 2009-10.
Year: 2011
Producers:
- Julie Shapiro
One of the most remarkable marathon finishes in recent history was recorded in 2009 in Boston. There, Kenyan runner, Salina Kosgei had her sights set on the finish line, having traveled half way around the world to get there.
Year: 2011
Producers:
- Jonathan Miller
Inspired by three art works from the London-based art organization Artangel, producer Francesca Panetta offers an immersive sonic exploration through the subject of memory: personal, geographical, musical, architectural...
Year: 2011
Producers:
- Francesca Panetta
- Seb Emina
This hour: Running on two legs, running on four, but most importantly, running with all your might.
Year: 2011
Producers:
- Gwen Macsai
- Katie Mingle
- Scott Carrier
- Ben Rubin
- Jonathan Miller
- Julie Shapiro
They say one man's trash is another man's treasure... Well, in Darren Atkinson's case, it's also his job.
Year: 2011
Producers:
- Dominic Girard
To mark ten amazing years of celebrating sound and story, we're closing out this year's Conference with something a little different - a special conversation about inspiration, collaboration, creativity, and storytelling that will leave your ears ringing... in a good way.
Year: 2010
Is it true? Are photographers secretly laughing at the multimedia efforts of audio producers?
Year: 2010
This session pulls back the curtain on one of the most difficult and important skills every producer needs to master: pitching a story.
Year: 2010
New developments in both hard and software are making audio production much more affordable, flexible, and convenient.
Year: 2010
Strong local radio doesn't emerge from a moment of inspiration; it's the product of repetition, experimentation, even failure. It's about habit.
Year: 2010
Producing great audio experiences becomes challenging in entirely new ways when you go beyond the stereo field, and add the dimension of actual physical space (say, a person with an iPod in Central Park.)
Year: 2010
You've pitched your story; you've collected tape; you've gone through your edits; you're ready to track.
Year: 2010
News correspondent Jamie Tarabay spent much of the past decade reporting from some of the world's most high-profile conflict zones, including two years as NPR's Baghdad bureau chief.
Year: 2010
Back in 2009, one German documentary won both of Europe's most coveted radio prizes – the Prix Italia and the Prix Europa.
Year: 2010
This hour: Jazz and the struggle for civil rights in South Africa and the U.S.
Year: 2010
Producers:
- Multiple producers
Re:sound's Gwen Macsai hosts this year's national broadcast, showcasing the best radio stories of the year - winners of the 2011 TC/RHDF Competition.
Year: 2011
Producers:
- Katie Burningham
- Marianne McCune
- Ben Calhoun
- Nick van der Kolk
- Brendan Baker
- Nick Williams
- Katie Mingle
Re:sound's Gwen Macsai hosts this year's national broadcast, showcasing the best radio stories of the year - winners of the 2011 TC / Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Competition.
Year: 2011
Producers:
- Andy Mills
- Jens Jarisch
- Sharon Davis
- Sally Herships
- Jad Abumrad
- Robert Krulwich
- Soren Wheeler
- Katie Mingle
In early 2010, the Third Coast teamed up with the incomparable pop / indie / experiemental band The Books, and issued an open invitation to make radio.
Year: 2010
This session pulls back the curtain on one of the most difficult and important skills every producer needs to master: pitching a story.
Year: 2010
This hour: Identical twins -- separated at birth, separated by belief and joined by matching outfits.
Year: 2010
Producers:
- Joe Richman
- Anna Scott-Brown
- Adam Fowler
- Hillary Frank
- Katie Mingle
American schools teach students that with hard work, they can realize their dreams. But this isn't the case for everyone.
Year: 2010
Producers:
- Dan Collison
- Elizabeth Meister
There are some 14,000 people living on the streets of Las Vegas, and Nevada ranks second in the nation in homeless population per capita.
Year: 2010
Producers:
- Adam Burke
British writer and radio presenter Hardeep Singh Kohli remembers the loneliness of being a goalkeeper, the player who spends 90 minutes looking at his colleagues' backs.
Year: 2010
Producers:
- Adam Fowler
Art museum security guards spend their days in uniform, speaking quietly or not at all, surrounded by works of irreplaceable art.
Year: 2010
Producers:
- Sofia Saldanha
Every year up to twenty people die completely alone in Amsterdam. They are illegal migrants, drug mules, or simply people who cut off all social contacts.
Year: 2010
Producers:
- Michele Ernsting
Barch Levi Blum was born in late 2009 at Toronto's Mt. Sinai Hospital. He lived for ten minutes.
Year: 2010
Producers:
- Mary Beth Kirchner
Eighteen years after Carol gave up her son for adoption, she still believed they would meet again.
Year: 2010
Producers:
- Shea Shackelford
- Virginia Millington
On the night of May 7th, 1951, a thousand people gathered in Laurel, Mississippi, to witness the execution of Willie McGee, a black man convicted of raping a white woman.
Year: 2010
Producers:
- Joe Richman
- Samara Freemark
A meditation on love, loss and loneliness in south London, An Interior Life tells the story of Bernard, an 86-year-old gay man who has been alone since the death of his long term partner.
Year: 2010
Producers:
- Laurence Grissell
Only in the last 60 years or so have people begun to talk openly about sex, but one group is often left out of the discussion.
Year: 2010
Producers:
- John Blades
This hour: the delicate interdependence between being in need and answering the call to help.
Year: 2010
Producers:
- Jonathan Goldstein
- Mira Burt-Wintonick
- Cristal Duhaime
- Ryan Knighton
- Shevonne Hunt
- Jay Allison
- Christina Egloff
- Brent Runyon
- Steve Wadhams
- Katie Mingle
NASA is figuring out how to take the next great leap into space. The difficulty is, if we leap to Mars, we might not make it back.
Year: 2010
Producers:
- Roman Mars
Raising kids is one of life's biggest and most complicated adventures. Sometimes a basic task can present a monumental challenge - especially for new parents.
Year: 2010
Producers:
- Cristal Duhaime
- Jonathan Goldstein
- Mira Burt-Wintonick
- Ryan Knighton
For every action there is a reaction. This week we look at consequences, both micro and macro.
Year: 2010
Producers:
- Joe Richman
- Colm McNaughton
- Katie Mingle
Bill Stenberg says he was just "standing on the corner with a friend, the way guys do" when he decided to enlist in the military.
Year: 2010
Producers:
- Ben Calhoun
This hour: Food. It's delicious. It's complicated.
Year: 2010
Producers:
- Ben Pagac
- Annie Cheney
- Jay Allison
- Scott Carrier
- Delaney Hall
- Katie Mingle
We remember some events as shockingly impossible, and yet just as easily, they could have happened to any one of us.
Year: 2010
Producers:
- Sue Muldowney
Beginning is always a challenge but thoughts once thought unconnected create a story.
Year: 2010
Producers:
- Dixie Treichel
A German and a Jew attempt to discover the relationship between their past and present - but their conversation proves only to weave a distorted map of missing links.
Year: 2010
Producers:
- JJ Hurvich
- Jonathan Beier
- Tad Klimp
A detective story. "There was a murder of a young man, who had three mistresses. Which of them is a murderer?"
Year: 2010
Producers:
- Elena Sviridova
- Kirill Golikov
- Linda Ostanina
- Maria Esaulkova
After learning of the bike shop's impending eviction, R.U.B.A.R.B. (Rusted Up Beyond All Recognition Bikes) volunteers share their memories and discuss possible future locations.
Year: 2010
Producers:
- Milissa Orzolek
A contagion of phone messages add up to an empty office.
Year: 2010
Producers:
- Neil Sandell
A few late students help us understand why the classroom is a special place.
Year: 2010
Producers:
- Aaron Sand
2010 ShortDocs Winner! From Baghdad to Western Sahara, an alphabetic listing of the world's prominent separation barriers builds a wall of its own.
Year: 2010
Producers:
- Niall Farrell
Music incorporating a performance of William Safford's poem "A Story That Could Be True" with Book Odds samples.
Year: 2010
Producers:
- Brendan Baker
Spanish guitarist/multi-instrumentalist Rosalia Roio talks about her Pájaro Volador ("Flying Bird"), one of her many homemade instruments built from recycled objects.
Year: 2010
Producers:
- Brendan Baker
2010 ShortDocs Winner! I said this is NUTS, and he agreed.
Year: 2010
Producers:
- Andrea Silenzi
A stranger moves slowly through town and reflects on all that has happened.
Year: 2010
Producers:
- David Newman
Producer Catie Talarski and her eleven-year-old brother get to work creating their annual Thirdcoast Shortdoc.
Year: 2010
Producers:
- Catie Talarski
An improvised scene by Brendan Pelsue and Natasha Haverty, set in an imagined seaside town.
Year: 2010
Producers:
- Natasha Haverty
Austin, Texas based experimental performance art group Happiness is a Choice use improvisation and their unique style of meta-theater to learn about each other and about the moments that they share on stage.
Year: 2010
Producers:
- Michael Ferstenfeld
Peter Wallace left the village of Leenane in the west of Ireland for the building sites of England and Germany in 1969 at 19 years of age; he came to live in Leeane once again in 2004.
Year: 2010
Producers:
- Colm Coyne
A monster grows while attracting tourists in downtown Seattle.
Year: 2010
Producers:
- Emily Eagle
In Tucson, Arizona, summer is like winter in Canada.
Year: 2010
Producers:
- Sarah Bromer
A nostalgic recollection of a late night out driving around and swimming with friends a few summers ago back on Cape Cod, where I grew up.
Year: 2010
Producers:
- Matthew McVickar
When an elementary school teacher who has never taken an art class is asked to be a presenter at an art awards ceremony, she enlists the help of students and parents to explain to her what art actually is.
Year: 2010
Producers:
- Peggy Keiner
An experimental jam using circuit-bent toys, laptop, and vocoder created at the weekly eSymposium hosted by Patrick McCarthy of Roth Mobot and held at Lizard's Liquid Lounge.
Year: 2010
Producers:
- Steve Schwarz
A young woman takes up knitting and finds an irresistible combination of wool and whiskey, peace and productivity.
Year: 2010
Producers:
- Katy Giebenhain
- Sue Muldowney
There he stood, stout and smirking, with a handlebar moustache - I felt like he was looking right at me.
Year: 2010
Producers:
- Lauren Kirby
Twin Peaks to Tanzania: an aural stream of conscious.
Year: 2010
Producers:
- Lauren Kirby
2010 ShortDocs Winner! In 2004, a group of Pride Day revellers gathered for a party on Creighton Street in Halifax, Nova Scotia and were treated to a riveting display of hermaphroditic slug sex.
Year: 2010
Producers:
- Frances Willick
I realized after the fact that this is basically a cover of Aerosmith's "Dream On," for chorus of female voices.
Year: 2010
Producers:
- Jennifer Deer
A quarky upbeat piece playing with the idea of broadcasting emotions through computer screens and loving each other via satellite.
Year: 2010
Producers:
- Erik Laar
A young man, lost in sound, finds his way through the wall.
Year: 2010
Producers:
- Alexander Stephens
Shelley seeks solitude with her hand-cranked whozaphone, but instead finds a friend in the Outer Limits.
Year: 2010
Producers:
- Lacy Roberts
Jennifer Brandel Just when you're convinced someone is gone as you knew them...
Year: 2010
Producers:
- Jennifer Brandel
In a small, urban forest hidden inside San Francisco's Tenderloin district, a curious group of nine and ten year old children are learning to sew.
Year: 2010
Producers:
- Kendall Taggart
This piece is an audio documentary centering on the stories of how people become connected to objects and about how we let these objects go at a garage sale.
Year: 2010
Producers:
- David Keto
Dr. Geoffrey Rheaume conducts a tour of the 1860s patient-built wall outside Toronto's Centre for Addiction and Mental Health.
Year: 2010
Producers:
- Linda Besner
An innocent (?) bystander observes a traffic accident and is surprised by his reaction.
Year: 2010
Producers:
- Tony Green
A mother and daughter assess the plight of a neighbor.
Year: 2010
Producers:
- Cheryl McPhilimy
- Tony Green
A meditation on big changes, building walls, and breaking them down again.
Year: 2010
Producers:
- Mia Lobel
A young rendering of an old story. All contributors between the ages of five and eight.
Year: 2010
Producers:
- Stephanie Coleman
On a rare sunny day in Seattle, we walk around the neighborhood and learn from strangers what we don't know.
Year: 2010
Producers:
- Emily Eagle
- Jenny Asarnow
A journey of discovery, passion, nature, and conscience.
Year: 2010
Producers:
- Ben Pagac
A man drives through rural Illinois to find an answer to future questions.
Year: 2010
Producers:
- Joe Bruce
- Veronica Soria
A personal account of Hendrick's adjustment to a hearing impairment, causing him to navigate a world of unwanted sound, is arranged with interviews of two friends recounting a noisy concert experience to help create a perception of what it's like to live behind a wall of noise.
Year: 2010
Producers:
- Chris Trimmer
Jay came with me to a whiskey convention thinking that he was going to have a blast...but someone from his past throws his night into a painful meditation on love and whiskey.
Year: 2010
Producers:
- Stephanie Foo
Thomas Bryant Jr. grew up as an African-American with albinism in Washington D.C. during the civil rights movement--a very complicated time to be in between.
Year: 2010
Producers:
- Stephanie Foo
The close quarters of an elevator make for a particularly suffocating ride after someone, um, passes gas. If only there was a gas mask on board, or a protective wall to block or at least deflect the pungent odor.
Year: 2010
Producers:
- Adam Kampe
A high school teacher imagines what might happen when poet Langston Hughes, in his poem "I, Too, Sing America," has a chance to leave the kitchen he's confined to and actually sit at the table when company comes.
Year: 2010
Producers:
- Adam Kampe
This audio story is about seeking happiness away from home.
Year: 2010
Producers:
- Kajsa Kvaale
The chains that code for our genes only make up 2% of our DNA, which means the purpose of the rest of the stuff is a bit of a mystery....
Year: 2010
Producers:
- Henry Hocking
- Marnie Chesterton
What is art? What is an artist? These are questions you need to ask yourself when confronted with Aaron - a computer controlled machine making art.
Year: 2010
Producers:
- Jakob Lisbjerg
The Wall teaches David how to be free--and how to dance.
Year: 2010
Producers:
- Sam Greenspan
Kaitlin and her recorder sitting in a tree...with Kelly the herbalist discussing the possibilities of plant-loving.
Year: 2010
Producers:
- Kaitlin Prest
The author recalls an incident from the past but wonders how much of it is real in this 3 minute piece about memory, ice cream and Lou Reed.
Year: 2010
Producers:
- Ruth Lopez
Writers' block forces an author to reconsider her approach to a lack of inspiration.
Year: 2010
Producers:
- Henry Hocking
- Marijke Peters
A master clock maker explains why he's devoted his life to the clocks we hang on our walls.
Year: 2010
Producers:
- Patrick Skahill
You might imagine the desert to be a cold freezin place at night but not so.
Year: 2010
Producers:
- Julien Clancy
Sisters Joyce Brilbeck and Kaye Logan share memories about growing up around Ballantyne Road near Onondaga Creek in Syracuse, NY.
Year: 2010
Producers:
- Farsheed Toosi
- Fereshteh Toosi
Mike shares the story of his start in the black market after he began dating a hippie woman named Samantha.
Year: 2010
Producers:
- Zachary Baiel
Can you believe there were this many things on top of the ground? Some of them have been worked and are beautiful.
Year: 2010
Producers:
- Katherine Wells
The problems regarding journeying through a metaphorical landscape.
Year: 2010
Producers:
- Shaun D. Wilson
- Sonia Yee
This song is a story about the magestical feelings and memories related to going fishing as a child.
Year: 2010
Producers:
- Devin Hildebrand
- Ross Farbe
Jenn Hartmann was moving from New York to Los Angeles, but she had to find a way to bring her nervous kitty. Unfortunately, she decided to fly.
Year: 2010
Producers:
- Tom Horan
A series of archived Craigslist Missed Connections email messages are recorded and re-recorded and with each sent message the message deteriorates.
Year: 2010
Producers:
- Jessica Grosman
It's rather difficult to walk down the street with your eyes closed. But one of us tried to, here is the result.
Year: 2010
Producers:
- Andrey Pronin
- Artyom Vysochenko
- Ksenia Donskaya
Since the 1880s Jews from all around the world have been called to Israel by the symbol of the Western Wall - but now there's a new wall where old friends meet.
Year: 2010
Producers:
- Wil Crisp
In a world of billion dollar 'stimulus packages' and Web 2.0 consumer profiling how can you break free of the chains of commerce (and get cheap kicks at the same time)?
Year: 2010
Producers:
- Wil Crisp
This is what happens on the last night of the Third Coast Conference, on a cold freezin' October night in 2006, when you put six sleep-deprived radio producers in a hotel room at three o'clock in the morning with cheap pizza, bad recording equipment, and a fair bit of alcohol.
Year: 2010
Producers:
- Dennis Conrow
A portrait of how a recent college graduate came to Islam, and the story of what happened when her parents found out she'd converted.
Year: 2010
Producers:
- Tali Singer
A first- hand account of a strange event overheard on a bus.
Year: 2010
Producers:
- Rowan D G Corkill
Several years after a life-threatening accident, Elizabeth understands what most of us can't.
Year: 2010
Producers:
- Jamie Courville
A teacher discovers that one of her students is a murderer and another accidentally misses the killing.
Year: 2010
Producers:
- Aaron Sand
Spelling Bee Champion Sheena needs to track down, and bring back, the missing letter G for her new town in this radio drama for kids.
Year: 2010
Producers:
- Shubha Bala
Sometimes interviews take strange turns - especially when the interviewee is a nine-year-old boxer with an inventive imagination.
Year: 2010
Producers:
- David Schultz
I Didn't Know That is a sonic exploration of state-controlled "truths," created almost entirely from appropriated public domain educational and military-training films.
Year: 2010
Producers:
- Tom Tenney
Connie Fredenberg tells the story one of her coldest experiences in Nikolski, Alaska.
Year: 2010
Producers:
- Aviva Hirsch
A story of love found, and lost, and the spaces in between.
Year: 2010
Producers:
- Julia Grant
2010 ShortDocs Winner! An 80-day bicycle trip from New York City to Seattle, camping and recording along the way, condensed into three minutes.
Year: 2010
Producers:
- Matt Purdy
Miguel de Unamuno is a very important figure in Spanish history. However his great grandson is much further away from him than any other person in Spain.
Year: 2010
Producers:
- Sofia Saldanha
A relationship based on missed meetings and message machines.
Year: 2010
Producers:
- Paul Staunton
- Rachel Ní Chuinn
A woman realizes that her partner isn't all she thought he was.
Year: 2010
Producers:
- Paul Staunton
- Rachel Ní Chuinn
An exercise in time condensation, or more simply time travel, in which the cave wall serves as interface between past and present, human and animal, Philip Smith, librarian, reads excerpts from two books about Upper Paleolithic cave art.
Year: 2010
Producers:
- Philip Smith
It gets cold in the desert at night and sound travels from really far away.
Year: 2010
Producers:
- Anna Boiko-Weyrauch
Audio collage pieced together from sound effects in Pink Floyd's 1979 album "The Wall."
Year: 2010
Producers:
- Chris Sewell
What 9 people need to make their houses feel like home.
Year: 2010
Producers:
- V. Dougherty
A brief look at the issue of substance abuse among Alaskan youth.
Year: 2010
Producers:
- Max Jungreis
A micro-doc of a man's love of shootin' rats, while absorbing the laid back city life from his back porch.
Year: 2010
A man visits a star sale, where auctioneers are selling off the cosmos to the highest bidder. The Southern Cross, Orion's Belt, the Big Dipper -- they're all up for grabs.
Year: 2010
Producers:
- Gretchen Miller
One man's struggle with himself and his family while trying to maintain his faith in God.
Year: 2010
Producers:
- Joe Johnson
A conversation between a middle aged man living near the Lincoln tunnel and his new friend Mr. Army.
Year: 2010
Producers:
- Rob Chabebe
A young woman's attempt at boosting her "street cred" goes horribly, awkwardly wrong.
Year: 2010
Producers:
- Mira Burt-Wintonick
A piece which explores the psychological aspects of stand-up comedy and offers insight into the seemingly simple world of the comedian.
Year: 2010
Producers:
- Adam Rose-Levy
A sea-side story of what seagulls might eat, or not.
Year: 2010
Producers:
- Elena Botkin-Levy
Field recordings of a Peruvian Pentecostal church service were used as a base for this piece, with which samples from The Books were incorporated in support of the narration of a spanish folk tale about the nature of heaven and best friends.
Year: 2010
Producers:
- Jesse Ricke
In which Calvin reflects on the meaning and measure of fatherhood.
Year: 2010
Producers:
- Dan Weissmann
This hour: looking for the intangible. What's lost and what might be found.
Year: 2010
Producers:
- Brett Myers
- Pejk Malinovski
- Robin Amer
- Nate DiMeo
- Delaney Hall
- Jacob Anderson
An evening walk gives one man more than he bargained for.
Year: 2010
Producers:
- Karen Gollrad
- Liz Bustamante
A story of what might have happened that night in the dark alleyways of the dingy part of Helsinki.
Year: 2010
Producers:
- Pauliina Motturi
Producers Joanna Stein and Nicole Beemsterboer take their ears underground and find the origin of some mysterious music.
Year: 2010
Producers:
- Joanna Stein
- Nicole Beemsterboer
When up and coming pop singer Alison Scott loses the chance to open for Bon Jovi, there's only one person who can help.
Year: 2010
Producers:
- Steve Nelson
For most of her life, Caitlin didn't want to have children, but after thirteen years with Devin and a change of heart, she is expecting a son.
Year: 2010
Producers:
- Michael De Bonis
A young husband and father leaves behind the (relative) security of his corporate cubicle to pursue life as a full-time artist.
Year: 2010
Producers:
- Diane Bock
Eventhough the cold causes fear and loathing in Finland, simplicity is found from the soul of the Finns: Sauna.
Year: 2010
Producers:
- Katri Puro
In which the author, at a low point, embarks on a relationship with his housemate -- only to learn that she is bipolar and prone to some odd behavior.
Year: 2010
Producers:
- Eric Winick
Every year smokejumpers, or wildland firefighters who parachute into remote areas to fight forest fires, secure their jobs in part by running for it.
Year: 2010
Producers:
- Nan Floyd
A journey to find a specific house by a lake. Recorded in the Lake Simcoe area of Ontario, Canada.
Year: 2010
Producers:
- Zoe Irvine
A Canadian filmmaker who lost his eye replaces his prosthetic with a bionic camera-eye so he can shoot documentary video from his pupil.
Year: 2010
Producers:
- Britt Wray
This is a story about human love, fear, loneliness and self perception in the neverending journey of life in the modern world.
Year: 2010
Producers:
- Ioana Baldea
A 14 year old Somali boy describes a method of killing a lion by hand.
Year: 2010
Producers:
- Glenn Simonsen
Recitation of the mystical English poem, "I Saw the Sun at Midnight, Rising Red", 1917 by Joesph Mary Plunkett and music by the Psalters.
Year: 2010
Producers:
- Glenn Simonsen
In which Dr. Robert W. Smith, University of Nebraska Chemistry professor, describes the enormity of distance between an organic molecule and the smallest living cell.
Year: 2010
Producers:
- Glenn Simonsen
Nathan James tells the story of digging his first underground tunnel.
Year: 2010
Producers:
- Chris Bolton
A riff on Plato's Allegory of the Cave, in which humans are presented as prisoners who spend their entire lives staring at a cave wall, mistaking the shadows they see there for the totality of existence.
Year: 2010
Producers:
- Sarah Boothroyd
In which, to curb his kids' insatiable greed, the author's father takes it upon himself to call off one of the most anticipated holidays of the year.
Year: 2010
Producers:
- Eric Winick
In which, following a rock concert, the author is accidentally left by friends at an outdoor amphitheater ninety minutes from his home town.
Year: 2010
Producers:
- Eric Winick
A bone cold dusk brings the icy adventures of a third grader to a close as his babysitting-tween sister selfishly examines mortality.
Year: 2010
Producers:
- Carolina Wheat
A man who would later become a priest describes the day of his conversion.
Year: 2010
Producers:
- Tina Antolini
Anne is a 37-year-old mother of two. Her husband Paul is a carpenter. She lives in an ordinary house, in a medium-sized Irish town, about a half-hour drive from Dublin. From the outside, Anne's life couldn't look more normal.
Year: 2010
Producers:
- Colette Kinsella
The pastor in this fictional drama is the main character in a half-completed short story.
Year: 2010
Producers:
- Andrew Hood
Justin McLachlan talked with some Lost super fans waiting to watch the series finale about all the things he didn't know he didn't know about the show.
Year: 2010
Producers:
- Justin McLachlan
This hour: a one way mission to mars, a Russian cosmonaut's favorite music, the Voyager golden record, the sound of the northern lights, and more.
Year: 2010
Producers:
- Roman Mars
- Larry Massett
- Charles Maynes
- Patrick Holland
- Gretchen Miller
- Russell Stapleton
- Jad Abumrad
- Robert Krulwich
- Barrett Golding
- Delaney Hall
Tamzen Moulding didn¹t know what was really happening behind the illusionary side of showbiz.
Year: 2010
Producers:
- Sofia Saldanha
Sharla Cooper of www.wholefoodies.org explains how whole food is greater than the sum of its refined parts.
Year: 2010
Producers:
- Masaki Araya
A working man spots a beautiful woman in a restaurant while waiting for his food.
Year: 2010
Producers:
- Curtis Williams
- Masaki Araya
Incorporating fictional and non-fictional elements, this is the story of a stripper, a carpenter in drag, a house wife and their chain of interactions.
Year: 2010
Producers:
- Andrew Parsons
Antoinette Jacobson, a sculptor from Norwich, VT, demonstrates her "pyrophone" (fire organ) on a chilly October night on the quad at Colby-Sawyer College in New London NH.
Year: 2010
Producers:
- Hester L Fuller
A dreamer offers a peek into the quirky logic of her sleeping mind.
Year: 2010
Producers:
- Claire Caldwell
An age-old story told by ex-slave Alice Gaston, speaking of her former masters, and hearing the constant rattle of long-gone chains.
Year: 2010
Producers:
- Josh Gibbs
It's hard enough drumming up public support for saving whales or spotted owls - but what about trying to preserve something less tangible in nature, like the peacefulness of a quiet forest?
Year: 2009
Producers:
- Andi McDaniel
The non-fiction scattered story of Devin Hildebrand's family Christmas '95, when his sister received a real kitten, Jodi, just like she wanted, among other things.
Year: 2010
Producers:
- Devin Hildebrand
A three hour span of time, boys, and awkward breaks in life.
Year: 2010
Producers:
- Anne Katherine Lesser
Mary Amoroso, who just had her ninety-fifth birthday, leaves a confused message on her boyfriend's answering machine.
Year: 2010
Producers:
- Molly Bennett
Eve Abrams was inspired by the heartfelt reactions of her first grade students to the tragedy currently unfolding in the Gulf of Mexico and in their coastal communities.
Year: 2010
Producers:
- Eve Abrams
This hour: Chicago. Hogbutcher to the world, jewel of the Midwest, and everything inbetween.
Year: 2010
Producers:
- Gwen Macsai
- Sean Cole
- Alan Hall
- Katie Mingle
- Aaron Ximm
- Heather Radke
- Chris Sewell
- Sean Hurley
- Jonathan Mitchell
- Delaney Hall
- Jacob Anderson
- Abraham Levitan
Megan Williams' friend Lorella talks about the social experiment she conducts on a bus in Milan, Italy each August.
Year: 2010
Producers:
- Megan Williams
A stranger wanders into a rural village, seeking warmth and shelter from a sharp January night. Unfortunately his reception at the local watering hole is just as icy as the wind he's trying to escape.
Year: 2010
Producers:
- Geoff Storm
For nearly a thousand years the Hopi people of Arizona have lived on the same three mesas and for all that time they've spoken the Hopi language. But now elders and youth alike say the language is dying.
Year: 2010
Producers:
- Brett Myers
This hour: how and why we're wired for sound. A look at music and the brain.
Year: 2010
Producers:
- Jowi Taylor
- Chris Brookes
- Paolo Pietropaolo
- Delaney Hall
Two opposing groups of immigration protestors in Arizona attempt to define the word "wall" without referring to Mexico.
Year: 2010
Producers:
- Aengus Anderson
- James Ford Howell
Randy Morton of Pacific Piano Supply in Chatsworth, California talks as he prepares to re-string the Myrow family Steinway.
Year: 2010
Producers:
- Rachael Myrow
At least forty thousand African Americans are practicing Jews. They call themselves Hebrew Israelites and their style of worship inspires a variety of reactions: enthusiasm, curiosity, and sometimes even outright hostility.
Year: 2008
Producers:
- Eric Molinsky
Ben Zimmerman ran The Books' samples through a sequenced Peavey Pro-Fex, created the track in Ableton, mastered it, ran it through several custom dynamic pitch and time-scaling effects (a different program for each submission) and mastered it again.
Year: 2010
Producers:
- Ben Zimmerman
This hour: the story (and the story behind the story) of Willie McGee.
Year: 2010
Producers:
- Joe Richman
- Samara Freemark
- Nate DiMeo
- Delaney Hall
Grace De Pass is fascinated with life at the laundromat. Her first trip to one, back in 1964, was particularly memorable.
Year: 2010
Producers:
- Jill Strauss
One man, one motorcycle, 13,843 miles, 89 days, 37 states, 166 interviews.
Year: 2010
Producers:
- Aengus Anderson
This hour: the experience of the city -- from the bicycle seat, the planner's map, and the poet's pen.
Year: 2010
Producers:
- Katie Burningham
- Zak Rosen
- Al Letson
- Delaney Hall
This hour: the capital of scamming.
Year: 2010
Producers:
- Susan Murphy
- Sharon Davis
- Timothy Nicastri
- Jacob Anderson
- Delaney Hall
This hour: kids sing opera, they talk about life on a remote island, and they opine about running the world.
Year: 2010
Producers:
- Alix Blair
- Neil Sandell
- Alessandro Bosetti
- Delaney Hall
Imagine an America ruled by children. They staff the post offices, run the schools, oversee the military, and decide on the form of government.
Year: 2009
Producers:
- Alessandro Bosetti
Paul de Jong and Nick Zammuto, otherwise known as the Books, incorporate an array of sound fragments and miniature stories into their music.
Year: 2003
Producers:
- The Books
Jimmy Yancey, the blues pianist and White Sox groundsman, and Studs Terkel, the broadcaster and author, may have lived at different ends of Chicago but they're both as integral a part of the city as the El...
Year: 2009
Producers:
- Alan Hall
For the last 20 years, Sherwin Sleeves has traveled the country, composing "theme songs" for cities across the United States. Inspiration for Chicago's song strikes while he's eating dinner at the Green Mill.
Year: 2009
Producers:
- Sean Hurley
Pilsen, 2009: Chicago summer is full of life and full of sound - you can hear it best on two wheels.
Year: 2009
Producers:
- Katie Mingle
An aging drummer takes his love of music - and his dreams of something bigger - to Chicago's Michigan Avenue.
Year: 2009
Producers:
- Chris Sewell
A loving examination of the Chicagoan language by four non-etymologists.
Year: 2009
Producers:
- Sean Cole
Carl Sandburg inspires a meditation on private worlds as we ride the El.
Year: 2009
Producers:
- Neil Sandell
Summer 2009: A field recording from of The Magic Hedge, where Chicago receives the dawn and migratory birds in lakefront silence.
Year: 2009
Producers:
- Noe Cuellar
This hour: one woman's comments at a school board meeting in Kanawa County, West Virginia, become a catalyst for deep division within the school district, the county, the state, and the entire country.
Year: 2010
Producers:
- Trey Kay
- Deborah George
- Delaney Hall
A classical composer, Stuart Brocklehurst, attempts to deal with his writer's block through environmental field recording.
Year: 2009
Producers:
- Laura Vitale
- Rick Moody
Feel the passion, feel the pain of the faithful followers of Chicago's Lovable Losers.
Year: 2009
Producers:
- Rich Halten
This hour: two amazing musicians explored through the portal of two amazing documentaries.
Year: 2010
Producers:
- Charles Maynes
- Brent Clough
- John Jacobs
- Delaney Hall
Every July 22nd, a group of Chicagoans gather to memorialize the death of infamous and beloved bank robber John Dillinger, who spent a year evading the authorities and winning American hearts before he was shot dead in July, 1934.
Year: 2009
Producers:
- Heather Radke
Cell phones and laptops rely on a particular mineral called colombite tantalum – coltan for short - and the growing demand for the material in the west has had ramifications in some pretty distant corners of the world.
Year: 2009
Producers:
- Gregory Warner
Ontario is the most recent province in Canada to open up adoption files in order to help birth families and adoptees find one another. But there is a disconcerting, though rare, consequence of adoptive reunions.
Year: 2009
Producers:
- Aaron Brindle
- Aziza Sindhu
This hour: the home funeral movement. Three families who've forgone traditional death rites in favor of a more DIY approach.
Year: 2010
Producers:
- April Dembosky
- Karen Michel
- Delaney Hall
Death Comes Home is a portrait of three families who have chosen to forego the funeral director and prescribed memorial to instead care for their dead at home.
Year: 2009
Producers:
- April Dembosky
About 12,000 students drop out of Chicago Public Schools each year despite efforts by administrators and teachers to keep them on track.
Year: 2009
Producers:
- Linda Lutton
Do we live in a world where there is magic and meaning, or is it all just chance?
Year: 2009
Producers:
- Jad Abumrad
- Soren Wheeler
Nick Drake died in 1974, an unknown songwriter with three failed folk albums to his name. But fast forward to the present, and Drake is considered among the most important musicians of his time.
Year: 2009
Producers:
- Charles Maynes
In 2009, Brisbane-based writer and documentarian Hamish Sewell traveled to Alabama to meet his estranged father for the first time in nearly 30 years.
Year: 2009
Producers:
- Hamish Sewell
A year ago, a swat team broke down the door of a home in downtown St. Paul and found eight Molotov cocktails inside.
Year: 2009
Producers:
- Michael May
This hour: we explore some big ideas – justice, injustice, punishment, and redemption – through small, powerful, personal stories.
Year: 2010
Producers:
- Jonathan Mitchell
- Neil Sandell
- Claire Schoen
- The Kitchen Sisters
- Delaney Hall
This hour: three documentary poems chronicling the lives of working class mothers in Troy, NY. Plus, poets as reporters, confused readers, and more.
Year: 2009
Producers:
- Lu Olkowski
- Kevin Dawson
- Curtis Fox
- Delaney Hall
A Hoosier attends a show at the lofty, hipster-run Shape Shoppe recording studio, in Chicago.
Year: 2009
Producers:
- Zachary Baiel
A docu-song about a broken dream, made from interview tape.
Year: 2009
Producers:
- Jonathan Mitchell
In the past, radio was the most ephemeral of all art forms - it slipped by the ear and then vanished into the air forever.
Year: 2009
Producers:
- Tom Morton
An up-and-coming executive and his car have a very bad day.
Year: 2008
Producers:
- Dave Urlakis
- Michael Slaboch
On the flight back from her honeymoon, Mary Beth loses her luggage and thinks it's a sign that her marriage might be a mistake.
Year: 2008
Producers:
- Sue Mell
A sci-fi melodrama about the abusive relationship between debt collector and collectee.
Year: 2008
Producers:
- Roman Mars
This audio art lament asks the question, "What happens when false care and concern land on the ears of someone truly in need?"
Year: 2008
Producers:
- Carma Jolly
A revenge plot goes awry when a woman ropes in her estranged best friend.
Year: 2008
Producers:
- Hillary Frank
Being a teenager can be really hard. Especially if you've flunked out of school. Or your dad has disappeared.
Year: 2007
Producers:
- Judith Sloan
Cohabitation is a dark and funny radio play consisting of five inspired vignettes chronicling one day in the lives of the human and non-human (both dead and alive) inhabitants of a fictional greystone in Chicago.
Year: 2005
Producers:
- Jill Dorothy Summers
Cohabitation is a dark and funny radio play consisting of five inspired vignettes chronicling one day in the lives of the human and non-human (both dead and alive) inhabitants of a fictional greystone in Chicago.
Year: 2005
Producers:
- Jill Dorothy Summers
Cohabitation is a dark and funny radio play consisting of five inspired vignettes chronicling one day in the lives of the human and non-human (both dead and alive) inhabitants of a fictional greystone in Chicago.
Year: 2005
Producers:
- Jill Dorothy Summers
Cohabitation is a dark and funny radio play consisting of five inspired vignettes chronicling one day in the lives of the human and non-human (both dead and alive) inhabitants of a fictional greystone in Chicago.
Year: 2005
Producers:
- Jill Dorothy Summers
Cohabitation is a dark and funny radio play consisting of five inspired vignettes chronicling one day in the lives of the human and non-human (both dead and alive) inhabitants of a fictional greystone in Chicago.
Year: 2005
Producers:
- Jill Dorothy Summers
Your pet can now own a cell phone -- what's the world coming to?
Year: 2004
Producers:
- Benjamen Walker
Voices in Your Head is an audio segment from Voci, a performance work Pamela Z created in 2003.
Year: 2003
Producers:
- Pamela Z
The origins of Geekspeak lie in a 1995 artist residency Pamela Z participated in at Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center.
Year: 2004
Producers:
- Pamela Z
Our Day Will Come explores the impact of R&B on America's civil rights movement, as well as the influence of the movement on popular music.
Year: 2002
Producers:
- Lex Gillespie
Elsie Vaalbooi was the last speaker of !Auni, the ancient language of South Africa's first peoples. Producer Siven Maslamoney tells the story of how languages die and how Elsie's people have been driven to extinction.
Year: 2003
Producers:
- ABC Ulwazi
For one month during the summer of 1996, producer Brenda Hutchinson drove her piano from New York City to San Francisco in the back of a U-Haul truck.
Year: 2002
Producers:
- Brenda Hutchinson
An interview with a performance artist, whose "art" consists of consuming entire copies of the Oxford English Dictionary, Gray's Anatomy, and the King James Bible.
Year: 2002
Producers:
- Gregory Whitehead
What if sounds could be frozen into ice cubes, then released upon their melting? Everyday movements and actions might become rich musical performances...
Year: 2002
Producers:
- Gregory Whitehead
A cerebral yet refreshing exploration into the question "where do creative ideas come from?"
Year: 2002
Producers:
- Gregory Whitehead
How to create a human brain -- from a bowl of mashed potatoes.
Year: 2002
Producers:
- Gregory Whitehead
At one time "Diamond" Jimmy Roy owned half the businesses in Braddock, Pennsylvania, a steel town just outside Pittsburgh.
Year: 2001
Producers:
- Dan Collison
Documentarian Mary Beth Kirchner lived in a Chicago convent to produce this intimate portrait of aging Catholic nuns.
Year: 2001
Producers:
- Mary Beth Kirchner
Esme Cordell shares a year's worth of classroom anecdotes and musings, culled from a journal kept throughout her first year teaching in Chicago.
Year: 2001
Producers:
- Esme Cordell
The village of Alert Bay, on Canada's Pacific coast, is a study in paradox for the teens growing up there. They have a rich aboriginal culture, but live in grinding poverty.
Year: 2009
Producers:
- Lindsay Michael
- Neil Sandell
- Teresa Goff
A wildfire swept through Oakridge Mobile Home Park in Sylmar, California in November 2008, destroying more homes, and displacing more families, than any California blaze in decades.
Year: 2009
Producers:
- Frank Stoltze
- Queena Sook Kim
This week: an aural trip to one of the oldest cities in the world, an unconventional love affair, and a man who eats up all the books he reads (literally).
Year: 2004
Producers:
- Jim Metzner
- Matthew Power
- Gregory Whitehead
- Julie Shapiro
This hour: we head back to high school. For better or for worse.
Year: 2004
Producers:
- Jonathan Mitchell
- Julie Shapiro
This hour: karaoke as marital therapy, a man tries to cure his stutter, the weird world of Tupperware parties, and more.
Year: 2004
Producers:
- Natalie Kestecher
- Emily Botein
- Dean Olsher
- Anne Penman
- Trisha Wilson
- Davia Nelson
- Nikki Silva
- The Kitchen Sisters
- Julie Shapiro
This hour: a woman investigates a secluded religious community, another secretly tapes her interactions with paint store owners, and yet another peels back the layers of "geek speak."
Year: 2004
Producers:
- Brenda Hutchinson
- Jonathan Menjivar
- Dmae Roberts
- Damali Ayo
- Pamela Z
- Julie Shapiro
This hour: a man hand-delivers reading material to a war criminal, two people who've never spoken fall in love, and more.
Year: 2004
Producers:
- Benjamen Walker
- Joan Schuman
- Michael Johnson
- Julie Shapiro
This hour: a retired child beauty queen recalls her youth and a young man revels in eating trash.
Year: 2004
Producers:
- Roman Mars
- Matthew Power
- Julie Shapiro
This hour: producer Dmae Roberts grapples with the history and memories of her Taiwanese mother, a history of PTSD, and more.
Year: 2004
Producers:
- Dmae Roberts
- Alix Spiegel
- Joe Frank
- Julie Shapiro
This hour: a few stories by author Rick Moody rendered in sound, plus a woman visits her friends' houses and talks with them about their books.
Year: 2004
Producers:
- Rick Moody
- Julie Shapiro
This hour: we head to the south side of Chicago and Japan.
Year: 2004
Producers:
- Dan Collison
- Elizabeth Meister
- Robin Hilton
- Julie Shapiro
This hour: a mysterious suitcase, basement bhangra, and more.
Year: 2004
Producers:
- Gregory Whitehead
- Karen Levine
- Julie Shapiro
This hour: sex on the Internet, music and memory, and more.
Year: 2004
Producers:
- Ann Heppermann
- Kara Oehler
- Dean Olsher
- Joe Frank
- Nicholas Longstaff
- Julie Shapiro
This hour: a girl goes on tour with her parents and a woman returns to her homeland in Iran after 40 years away.
Year: 2004
Producers:
- Marianne McCune
- Czerina Patel
- Jaimita Haskell
- Joni Murphy
- Shirley Jahad
- Julie Shapiro
This hour: reparations, repatriations, and the mystery of the earworm.
Year: 2004
Producers:
- Lea Redfern
- Damali Ayo
- Dmae Roberts
- Julie Shapiro
This hour: a visit to one of the most remote islands on earth, a woman who sings with crickets, an unusual friendship, and a return to Zagreb.
Year: 2004
Producers:
- Various producers
This hour: a brief history of the mall, radical knitters, and more.
Year: 2005
Producers:
- Jonathan Mitchell
- Ken Reisman
- Matt Simon
- Kimberly Carroll
- Roman Mars
This hour: games!
Year: 2005
Producers:
- Chris Brookes
- Jason Rayles
- Ben Rubin
- Roman Mars
This hour: the 2003 and 2004 Third Coast ShortDocs, which focused on the themes of thirst and darkness.
Year: 2005
Producers:
- Adam Burke
- Jude Fletcher
- Hugh Levinson
- Rick Moody
This hour: decoding female language, an intimate dinner, and a tour of bathroom stall graffiti.
Year: 2005
Producers:
- Gwen Macsai
- Lorelei Harris
- Laura Vitale
- Roman Mars
This week: 14 brothers and sisters search for their estranged father, and a profile of one of the most avid sound recordists of all time.
Year: 2005
Producers:
- Phyllis Fletcher
- The Kitchen Sisters
- Roman Mars
This hour: stories told over the phone.
Year: 2005
Producers:
- Jonathan Goldstein
- Julie Shapiro
- Eurydice Aroney
- Benjamen Walker
- Ann Dentry
- Roman Mars
This hour: the difficult, brief, and brilliant life of writer Raymond Carver.
Year: 2005
Producers:
- Alfred Koch
- Lea Redfern
- Roman Mars
This hour: a beached whale in Maine, a conversation with the "real" Darth Vader, school kids deconstruct the work of one of America's most difficult poets, and more.
Year: 2005
Producers:
- Molly Menschel
- Sean Cole
- Benjamen Walker
- Pejk Malinovski
- Pamela Z
- Roman Mars
This hour: gods, idols, worshipers, and skeptics.
Year: 2005
Producers:
- Jane Ulman
- Julie Subrin
- Dean Olsher
- Paul de Jong
- Nick Zammuto
- David Isay
- Richard Sandler
- Emily Harris
- Roman Mars
This hour: the strange world of competitive model horse collecting and an investigation of an old classmate's death.
Year: 2005
Producers:
- Julie Shapiro
- Gwen Macsai
- Roman Mars
This hour: a story about the vagaries of memory, leaving a legacy, and elevating the personal narrative above the political mire.
Year: 2005
Producers:
- Sean Cole
- Roman Mars
This hour: the halls of a high school and the alleys of one of the oldest cities in the world.
Year: 2005
Producers:
- David Torgersen
- Jim Metzner
- Roman Mars
This hour: producers and sound artists go to the audio playground and remix to their heart's content.
Year: 2005
Producers:
- Jonathan Mitchell
- Jay Allison
- Sean Cole
- DJ Paul V
- Adam Goddard
- Steve Wadhams
- Roman Mars
This hour: the inhabitants of a fictional greystone and some very real survivors of suicide, who speak bravely and candidly about their experiences.
Year: 2005
Producers:
- Various producers
This hour: a father with aphasia, an elusive bird, and more.
Year: 2005
Producers:
- Various producers
This hour: two stories from Roman Mars's Invisible Ink.
Year: 2005
Producers:
- Various producers
This hour: spies, pirates, mysterious broadcasts, and a bold acoustic experiment.
Year: 2005
Producers:
- Various producers
This hour: an obscure director frets his way through Sundance, the accidental genre known as film noir, and more.
Year: 2005
Producers:
- Various producers
This hour: a tall, white New Zealander heads to Mumbai to try and land a role in one of the hundreds of Bollywood films the industry churns out each year.
Year: 2005
Producers:
- Simon Morton
- Roman Mars
This hour: memories and reverberations of conflict.
Year: 2005
Producers:
- Pejk Malinovski
- Marjorie Van Helteren
- Helen Engelhardt
- Jon Watanabe
- Michael Kraskin
- David Terry
- Roman Mars
This hour: Dads. The good, the bad, and the complicated.
Year: 2006
Producers:
- Jeanine Cornillot
- Viki Merrick
- Jesse Brown
- Karen Levine
- Gwen Macsai
- Roman Mars
This hour: a seemingly mismatched but (mostly) happy couple, a wife who exacts revenge on her husband via beef broth, and more.
Year: 2006
Producers:
- Dheera Sujan
- Jill Dorothy Summers
- David Whitcomb
- Alla Pekareva
- Noah Miller
- Roman Mars
This hour: tongue twisters, brain teasers, cheaters, and one of the worst high school football teams of all time.
Year: 2006
Producers:
- Judith Sloan
- Blake Eskin
- Melissa Allison
- Michael Kavanagh
- Matthew Power
- Emily Botein
- Dan Collison
- Elizabeth Meister
- Gwen Macsai
- Roman Mars
This hour: the strange, storied, hodgepodge history of radio.
Year: 2006
Producers:
- Joe Richman
- Chris Brookes
- Geoff Siskind
- Roman Mars
This hour: voyaging, wandering, and becoming a fanatic pedestrian.
Year: 2006
Producers:
- Jenny Asarnow
- Bronwyn Ximm
- Aaron Ximm
- Abner Serd
- Roman Mars
This hour: the captivating results of a transcontinental radio collaboration.
Year: 2006
Producers:
- Sherre DeLys
- Rick Moody
- Chris Abrahams
- Russell Stapleton
- Sarah Varney
- Paul Frey
- Roman Mars
This hour: stories that bend, stretch, and downright fabricate the truth.
Year: 2006
Producers:
- Gregory Whitehead
- Eurydice Aroney
- John Jacobs
- Benjamen Walker
- Nick van der Kolk
- Adrianne Mathiowetz
- Joe Frank
- Roman Mars
This hour: time-lapse phonography, a much-sampled beat, and the only instrument you can play without actually touching.
Year: 2006
Producers:
- Trent Wolbe
- Michele Ernsting
- Nate Harrison
- Roman Mars
This hour: a pizza chef travels to North Korea to cook for Kim Jong Il, a young man contemplates his release from "juvie," and more.
Year: 2006
Producers:
- Cath Dwyer
- Mark Don
- Hugh Levinson
- Roman Mars
This hour: a child beauty queen, a young transgendered man, and an obsessive teen.
Year: 2006
Producers:
- Roman Mars
- Richie Duchon
- Catalina Puente
- Czerina Patel
- Miguel Macias
This hour: two decades after he was forced to flee, a young Palestinian man returns to his home to meet the Israeli woman who lives there now.
Year: 2006
Producers:
- Sandy Tolan
- Roman Mars
Bashir was six during the height of the 1948 Arab-Israeli war, when his family was forced to flee his stone home in old Palestine and live as refugees in the West Bank town of Ramallah.
Year: 1998
Producers:
- Sandy Tolan
This hour: a beloved pig and a meditation on dogs.
Year: 2006
Producers:
- Bob Garfield
- Lea Redfern
- Russell Stapleton
- Roman Mars
This hour: two stories from RTE's Flux with Ronan Kelly.
Year: 2006
Producers:
- Ronan Kelly
- Roman Mars
This hour: a group of tourists travels through Central Asia, where antics and misbehavior ensue.
Year: 2006
Producers:
- Ben Adair
- Roman Mars
This hour: a documentary composition by Alessandro Bosetti.
Year: 2006
Producers:
- Aaron Henkin
- Alessandro Bosetti
- Roman Mars
This hour: a visit to one of the most remote islands on earth, a woman who sings with crickets, a return to Zagreb, and more.
Year: 2006
Producers:
- Jack Chance
- Gregg McVicar
- Chelsea Merz
- Pavlica Bajsic
- Vedran Peternel
- Roman Mars
This hour: readers, writers, literary performance artists, and the grammar police.
Year: 2006
Producers:
- Gregory Whitehead
- Benjamen Walker
- Jeff Greenwald
- Jeff Johnson
- Peter Crimmins
- Roman Mars
This hour: two stories by Mary Beth Kirchner.
Year: 2006
Producers:
- Mary Beth Kirchner
- Roman Mars
This hour: a town grapples with a young person's violent death, and a sound portrait of a chaotic emergency call center.
Year: 2006
Producers:
- Claudia Taranto
- Kyla Brettle
- Roman Mars
This hour: a story about the bitter fight for gay rights in New Zealand, featuring a blend of rare archival tape of the speeches, rallies, and debates that marked the struggle and the personal stories of people affected by the fight.
Year: 2006
Producers:
- Gareth Watkins
- Roman Mars
This hour: the story of four small towns that were evacuated and flooded to create one of the biggest reservoirs of drinking water on the east coast.
Year: 2006
Producers:
- Sean Cole
- Carolina Wheat
- Roman Mars
This hour: spiritual loss and pursuit, an isolated religious community in rural Montana, a grumpy minister, and more.
Year: 2006
Producers:
- Benjamen Walker
- Brenda Hutchinson
- Joe Frank
- Roman Mars
This hour: 99 Ways to Tell a Radio Story, an audio experiment orchestrated by the Third Coast Festival in collaboration with cartoonist Matt Madden.
Year: 2006
Producers:
- Rick Moody
- Michael Hearst
- Christian Gasser
- Eurydice Aroney
- Tom Morton
- Stuart Brown
- Kay Collins
- Brett Beyer
- David Henderson
- David Schulman
- Jill Dorothy Summers
- Sasha Aslanian
- Zoe Irvine
- Carma Jolly
- Roman Mars
This hour: music, memory, lost love, and John Denver.
Year: 2006
Producers:
- Ann Heppermann
- Kara Oehler
- Rick Moody
- Judith Kampfner
- Gwen Macsai
- Roman Mars
This hour: Rebecca Sheir's The End as Beginning: An Audio Exploration of the Jewish View of Death, a trilogy that blends interviews, personal reflections, and music, and focuses on death and the Jewish tradition.
Year: 2007
Producers:
- Rebecca Sheir
- Roman Mars
This hour: a man grapples with the stillbirth of his son with surprising grace and clear-eyed honesty.
Year: 2007
Producers:
- David Hansen
- Roman Mars
This hour: the work of Dan Collison and Elizabeth Meister of Long Haul Productions. Dan and Elizabeth specialize in stories that follow people over days, weeks, and even years.
Year: 2007
Producers:
- Dan Collison
- Elizabeth Meister
- Roman Mars
This hour: excerpts from some of our favorite Third Coast Conference sessions from years past.
Year: 2007
Producers:
- Roman Mars
This hour: letters on the radio.
Year: 2007
Producers:
- Amy O'Leary
- Claudia Taranto
- Lucy Baker
- Jonathan Menjivar
- Zak Rosen
- Roman Mars
This hour: the intriguing world of experimental podcasts.
Year: 2007
Producers:
- Sue Mell
- Benjamen Walker
- Lloyd Brodnax King
- Michael Kraskin
- Matt Sahr
- Roman Mars
This hour: a man falls out of the sky, a woman falls into a hole, and a man recovers from a serious rock climbing accident.
Year: 2007
Producers:
- Annie Hastwell
- Michele Goldsworthy
- Kent Hoffman
- Roman Mars
This hour: one room school houses from Maui to Maine, each with a unique culture and character.
Year: 2007
Producers:
- Neenah Ellis
- Roman Mars
This hour: the Rockettes, the opera, congress, and other spectacles.
Year: 2007
Producers:
- Dean Olsher
- Emily Botein
- Amy O'Leary
- Limor Tomer
- Ed Herrmann
- Brendan Greeley
- Sean Cole
- Roman Mars
This hour: a very personal take on a rare subculture, a young man forced to confront his obesity, a dinner with unabashed nudists, and more.
Year: 2007
Producers:
- Kath Duncan
- Samr "Rocky" Tayeh
- Kaari Pitkin
- Elizabeth Threlkeld
- Gwen Macsai
- Roman Mars
This hour: the mysteries and complexities of the brain.
Year: 2007
Producers:
- Dheera Sujan
- Hannah Palin
- Roman Mars
This hour: left-handed creativity and innovation.
Year: 2007
Producers:
- Robyn Ravlich
- Russell Stapleton
- Tony Mendoza
- Michael Slaboch
- Roman Mars
This hour: the golden years.
Year: 2007
Producers:
- Joe Richman
- David Greenberger
- Dan Collison
- Roman Mars
This hour: brothers and sisters contend with family illness.
Year: 2007
Producers:
- Julie Kimberly
- Karen Brown
- Roman Mars
This hour: a surprising look at the relationship between a hospice worker and his patient.
Year: 2007
Producers:
- Dan Collison
- Elizabeth Meister
- Stephanie Rowden
- Keith Taylor
- Roman Mars
This hour: amateur sleuths and internet detectives.
Year: 2007
Producers:
- Sara Parker
- Sue Mell
- Roman Mars
This hour: sign language, lip-reading, and deaf culture.
Year: 2007
Producers:
- Kirsti Melville
- Roman Mars
This hour: a closely guarded family secret and the hidden history of long-deceased grandmother.
Year: 2007
Producers:
- Sharon Davis
- Eurydice Aroney
- Russell Stapleton
- Roman Mars
This hour: a chronicle of European history through the sound of bells and a bizarre spectacle of endurance.
Year: 2007
Producers:
- Steve Wadhams
- Peter Leonhard Braun
- Conor Lennon
- Roman Mars
This hour: a man transformed by illness, a house full of paintings left behind by an old friend, and a surprisingly complex story of old people in love.
Year: 2008
Producers:
- Mary Beth Kirchner
- Rebecca Peterson
- Joe Richman
- Sue Mell
- Dan Gorenstein
- Roman Mars
This hour: a young patient escapes his hospital bed through flights of imagination, a musician documents a city under siege, and more.
Year: 2008
Producers:
- Sherre DeLys
- John Jacobs
- John Wynne
- Anna Burns
- Louis Mitchell
- Jill Dorothy Summers
- Roman Mars
This hour: we celebrate ten years of Outfront, a groundbreaking show on the Canadian Broadcasting Corportation that invited listeners to tell their own stories.
Year: 2008
Producers:
- Laurence Stevenson
- Christine Atkinson
- Adam Goddard
- Steve Wadhams
- James Raffan
- Carma Jolly
- Sharone Bar-David
- Iris Yudai
- Roman Mars
This hour: an isolated village experiences rapid cultural change, a "border blaster" transmits totally unregulated radio programs from Mexico into the U.S., and a tiny frog causes trouble.
Year: 2008
Producers:
- James Spring
- Jamie York
- Dan Collison
- Elizabeth Meister
- Roman Mars
This hour: mountain climbers, pilots, and people on the way UP.
Year: 2008
Producers:
- Roz Bluett
- Arielle Lasky
- Sarah Boothroyd
- Roman Mars
This hour: girls, boys, and sleepover reconnaissance.
Year: 2008
Producers:
- Meghan Vigeant
- Joe Richman
- Hillary Frank
- Jonathan Menjivar
- Rick Moody
- Roman Mars
This hour: the wild and wonderful results of the Third Coast Festival's 2007 Audio Challenge: Dollar Storeys.
Year: 2008
Producers:
- Zak Rosen
- Jamie Dell'Apa
- Hillary Frank
- Jonathan Messinger
- Sean Hurley
- Jeffrey Letterly
- David Maxon
- Nina Perry
- Jocelyn Peirce
- Roman Mars
This hour: a visit to a pauper's graveyard, three very short (but very big) questions, and more.
Year: 2008
Producers:
- Nora Harrington
- Katie Mingle
- Karen Michel
- Roman Mars
This hour: redeeming the much-maligned bird.
Year: 2008
Producers:
- Lea Redfern
- Guy Hand
- Roman Mars
This hour: phone solicitors, bottle evangelists, a mysterious cassette tape unearthed in the attic, and more.
Year: 2008
Producers:
- Roman Mars
- Carma Jolly
- Neil McCarthy
- Gregory Whitehead
- Mira Burt-Wintonick
This hour: two curious stories from one of the most talented and curious producers we know.
Year: 2008
Producers:
- Kyla Brettle
- Delaney Hall
This hour: earworms, mantras, and stories told again and again.
Year: 2008
Producers:
- Ronan Kelly
- Marianne Rahn-Erickson
- Delaney Hall
- Reena Katz
- Martin Williams
This hour: a radio station dedicates five days of air-time to a live reading of Tolstoy's War and Peace.
Year: 2008
Producers:
- Brian DeShazor
- Christopher Sprinkle
- Delaney Hall
This hour: a disappearing lake, a luxury liner on the Adriatic Sea, and more.
Year: 2008
Producers:
- Meagan Perry
- Mladen Ovadija
- Rob Rosenthal
- Cally Carswell
- Nina Perry
- Delaney Hall
This hour: a Japanese blues singer, an aging opera fan, and homemade recordings of a rural children's choir.
Year: 2008
Producers:
- Dean Olsher
- Rachel Hopkin
- Katie Mingle
- Carma Jolly
- Delaney Hall
This hour: people move and places change.
Year: 2008
Producers:
- Peggy Giakoumelos
- Lea Redfern
- Judith Sloan
- Anastasia Ivanova
- Delaney Hall
This hour: a janitor poet, a teenage psychic, and more.
Year: 2008
Producers:
- Heather Radke
- Neil Trevithick
- Monica Vasconcelos
- Natalie Kestecher
- Katie Mingle
- Delaney Hall
This hour: we're diving into the archives and rewinding our way to the 1970s and 80s, sampling some of the fascinating, strange, and hilarious work that was produced when public radio was a medium without a real template.
Year: 2008
Producers:
- Jay Allison
- Noah Adams
- Deborah Amos
- James Reston
- Keith Talbot
- The Kitchen Sisters
- Joe Frank
- Delaney Hall
This hour: people living in the in-betweens.
Year: 2008
Producers:
- Joe Richman
- Sara Martinez
- Kaari Pitkin
- Melissa Allison
- Sanda Htyte
- Sandy Tolan
- Neil Sandell
- Tina Antolini
- Delaney Hall
This hour: one boy leaves home and never returns, another leaves and returns forever changed.
Year: 2008
Producers:
- Myfanwy Davies
- Steve Wadhams
- Julie Kimberly
- Delaney Hall
This hour: the BBC's groundbreaking Radio Ballads, produced between 1958 and 1964, which wove sounds, voices, and music into dense sonic tapestries that explored everything from the lives of coal miners to the lives of teenagers, focusing mainly on communities that weren't often heard from on the radio.
Year: 2008
Producers:
- Charles Parker
- Dan Collison
- Elizabeth Meister
- Delaney Hall
This hour: sounds and stories from Cambodia.
Year: 2008
Producers:
- Virginia Madsen
- Aaron Ximm
- Delaney Hall
This hour: an all-woman Led Zeppelin cover band and metal-loving children.
Year: 2008
Producers:
- Katie Burningham
- Alan Hall
- John Moe
This hour: foxes, rabbits, snakes, whales, birds, lambs, and dogs.
Year: 2008
Producers:
- David Isay
- Matthew Ozug
- Gretta Cohn
- Iain Reid
- Kent Hoffman
- Emily Botein
- Ira Glass
- Delaney Hall
This hour: the work of producer Sean Hurley, a writer and musician who lives on top of a mountain in New Hampshire and has an alter-ego, Sherwin Sleeves, who's become central to Sean's radio storytelling.
Year: 2008
Producers:
- Sean Hurley
- Delaney Hall
This hour: melodies from the world around us.*Note: due to rights issues, not all pieces in this show can be streamed on our website.
Year: 2009
Producers:
- Katie Mingle
- Mazen Kerbaj
- Nina Perry
- Laura Vitale
- Rick Moody
- Delaney Hall
This hour: a peek into auditions at one of the most competitive conservatories in Australia, and more.
Year: 2009
Producers:
- Elizabeth Chur
- Kyla Brettle
- Delaney Hall
This week: a worm digger in rural Maine, a remarkably effective citizen spy, and more.
Year: 2009
Producers:
- Jesse Dukes
- Geoff Siskind
- Jesse Brown
- Andrew Parker
- Jacob Fenston
- Delaney Hall
This hour: best friends who will never meet face to face, an abandoned wedding dress found floating in a lake, and more.
Year: 2009
Producers:
- Hillary Frank
- Susan Mahoney
- Steve Wadhams
- Jonathan Mitchell
- Katie Mingle
- Delaney Hall
This hour: here, there, and in-between.
Year: 2009
Producers:
- Ann Heppermann
- Kara Oehler
- Jason Cady
- Kate Davidson
- Catrin Einhorn
- Linda Lutton
- Delaney Hall
This hour: two stories that get incredibly, intimately, close to their subjects.
Year: 2009
Producers:
- Sarah Kate Kramer
- Adrian Nicole LeBlanc
- David Isay
- Masako Fukui
- Delaney Hall
This hour: meditations on whispering, selective mutism, and a man who records some of the quietest sounds in the world.
Year: 2009
Producers:
- Laura Mayer
- Natalie Kestecher
- Delaney Hall
This hour: the weird, wonderful results of the Radio Ephemera ShortDoc Challenge.
Year: 2009
Producers:
- Sean Hurley
- Mikkel Nedergaard
- Chris Sewell
- Zachary Baiel
- Tina Antolini
- Sarah Boothroyd
- Rich Halten
- David P. Earle
- Meghan Vigeant
- John Biewen
- Delaney Hall
This hour: a seismic shift in a man's identity, a bad dog who refuses to change, and more.
Year: 2009
Producers:
- Eric Winick
- Jay Allison
- Katie Mingle
- Thelon Oeming
- Delaney Hall
This hour: journeys to the far north, the moon, and other places near and far.
Year: 2009
Producers:
- Elizabeth Arnold
- Emily Botein
- Catherine Girardeau
- Peter Bochan
- Anthony Mascorro
- Jay Allison
- Delaney Hall
This hour: secrets and double lives.
Year: 2009
Producers:
- Pejk Malinovski
- Natalie Kestecher
- Delaney Hall
This hour: a lobster diver in Honduras, a chocolate taster in France, a movie director in Nigeria, and other stories that reveal the workaday world in all its globalized complexity, one person at a time.
Year: 2009
Producers:
- Kelly McEvers
- Jonathan Miller
- Chris Brookes
- Claudine LoMonaco
- Sandy Tolan
- Delaney Hall
This hour: families, in all their messy, dysfunctional glory.
Year: 2009
Producers:
- Eurydice Aroney
- Tom Morton
- Stuart Brown
- Josetta Adams
- Kaari Pitkin
- Sanda Htyte
- Andrew Bergmann
- J. Alexander Cohen
- Tom Morton
- Delaney Hall
This hour: hunting for moose, buffalo, and love.
Year: 2009
Producers:
- Jamie Yuenger
- John Connell
- Robert McGinley Myers
- Delaney Hall
- Sharon Davis
This hour: the untold story behind one of the most famous, groundbreaking, and disturbing experiments in the history of psychological research.
Year: 2009
Producers:
- Sharon Davis
- Gina Perry
- Delaney Hall
This hour: change. Some of us crave it, some of us avoid it at all costs. But whenever and wherever it happens, change creates fallout, intentional or not.
Year: 2010
Producers:
- John Biewen
- Tennessee Watson
- Dan Collison
- Elizabeth Meister
- Delaney Hall
Leonard Little Finger is the great-great grandson of Chief Big Foot, whose band of Lakota Sioux Indians were killed at Wounded Knee, South Dakota, in 1890.
Year: 2000
Producers:
- Hal Cannon
- Taki Telonidis
Voice of America's The Century in Sound is a radio documentary that chronicles the entire 20th century without narration.
Year: 2001
Producers:
- Adam Phillips
Part Wizard of Oz, part Dante's Inferno, part absurdist radio theater, and part anti-corporate musical, this 20-episode podcast follows the Tin Man (but not necessarily the one you're thinking of) on a bizarre and venturesome journey through landscapes familiar and unknown.
Year: 2007
Producers:
- Matt Sahr
Scott Carrier joins the ranks of thousands of religious pilgrims who have been circling the base of Mount Kailash in Tibet for centuries.
Year: 2007
Producers:
- Scott Carrier
From the exact top of the world, Elizabeth Arnold reflects on being so far away from the rest of it.
Year: 2007
Producers:
- Elizabeth Arnold
City dweller Natalie Edwards confronts her distaste for all things green. Reluctantly.
Year: 2007
Producers:
- Natalie Edwards
The Third Coast Festival Lifetime Achievement Award (now the Audio Luminary Award) is presented annually to an individual who is greatly admired for his or her significant and ongoing contributions to the field of radio. Hats off to the 2002 recipient, Studs Terkel.
Year: 2002
Producers:
- Studs Terkel
The early days of the Third Coast/Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Competition included a Lifetime Achievement Award.
Year: 2003
Producers:
- Joe Frank
The Third Coast Festival Audio Luminary Award is presented annually to an individual who is greatly admired for his or her significant and ongoing contributions to the field of radio. Hats off to the 2008 Audio Luminary, Chris Brookes.
Year: 2008
Producers:
- Chris Brookes
Susan Burton reports on Prom Night 2001 in Hoisington, Kansas, a town of about 3,000. While the seniors danced, a tornado hit the town, destroying about a third of it.
Year: 2001
Producers:
- Susan Burton
James, an ex-felon, narrates the story of his transition from prison-life to self-sufficiency.
Year: 2001
Producers:
- Dan Collison
Rip, Rift, and Panic weaves together stories, archival tape, and sound to create a portrait of the emotional and logistical aspects of living along an earthquake fault line.
Year: 2001
Producers:
- Susan Stone
Blues musician Screamin' Jay Hawkins had 57 children, some of whom were happier than others to learn of their father's prolific paternity.
Year: 2001
Producers:
- Alix Spiegel
Von Trapped is a story about a woman obsessed with The Sound of Music, as well as other things Austrian.
Year: 2001
Producers:
- Natalie Kestecher
In Heroin, teenager Janesse Nieves confronts her father about his heroin addiction, and eloquently shares her own feelings of confusion, anger, embarrassment and disgust.
Year: 2001
Producers:
- Czerina Patel
- Janesse Nieves
- Marianne McCune
The Vietnam Tapes of Lance Corporal Michael A. Baronowki presents the recovered tapes of a young marine who kept an audio diary of his war experience in Vietnam until his death.
Year: 2001
Producers:
- Christina Egloff
- Jay Allison
The corrections industry has become a $50-billion-a-year business and one of the strongest influences on criminal justice policy in America.
Year: 2002
Producers:
- John Biewen
Affairs of the Mind is a personal and confrontational story exploring the nature of jealousy and the parameters of infidelity.
Year: 2002
Producers:
- Kyla Brettle
Annapurna: Memories in Sound is an impressionistic sound portrait of the Ximms' trek through the Annapurna Circuit, a popular three-week hiking trip through the Himalayas to Nepal.
Year: 2002
Producers:
- Aaron Ximm
- Bronwyn Ximm
Grey Ghost is the story of one man and a bird -- or possibly just of one man. It is also the story of an obsession.
Year: 2002
Producers:
- Allan Coukell
Laura Rothenberg is 21 years old, but likes to say that she's already had her mid-life crisis. Laura has cystic fibrosis, a genetic disorder that affects the lungs and other organs.
Year: 2002
Producers:
- Joe Richman
- Laura Rothenberg
A young patient reinvents his experience of being in the hospital through metaphor and allusion. Responding to "what if" questions, Andrew exemplifies the transformative qualities of fantasy, empathy, and humor.
Year: 2002
Producers:
- John Jacobs
- Sherre DeLys
In the 1940s, when he was 16 years old, Myron Jones was allowed to stay up late any night of the week and hang out at bars or wherever he pleased, but his mother barely let his older sister Carol out of the house at all. So the siblings devised a plan.
Year: 2002
Producers:
- Alex Blumberg
- Ira Glass
- Jonathan Goldstein
Jaimita Haskell was given the opportunity to take advanced classes at her high school, an experience she found stimulating and rewarding.
Year: 2003
Producers:
- Czerina Patel
- Jaimita Haskell
- Marianne McCune
As a girl, Reena Katz learned one story about the history of Israel and the people who lived there. As she grew up, an interest in cartography and her father's rare books about Palestine prompted her to dig deeper to understand the landscape of the Middle East.
Year: 2003
Producers:
- Reena Katz
Blending satire, drama, and interviews, this Australian documentary portrays a not-so-distant future where robots care for children and parents agree to live apart from their families during the work week.
Year: 2003
Producers:
- Eurydice Aroney
In the summer of 2002, 17-year-old Hyder Akbar traveled from California with his father to their home country of Afghanistan. He took a tape recorder along on the trip to record his thoughts and experiences.
Year: 2003
Producers:
- Hyder Akbar
- Susan Burton
The Sonic Memorial Project is an intimate and historic documentary commemorating the life and history of the World Trade Center and its surrounding neighborhood, through audio artifacts, rare recordings, voice mail messages, and interviews.
Year: 2003
Producers:
- The Kitchen Sisters
The Third Coast Festival Lifetime Achievement Award (now known as the Audio Luminary Award) is presented annually to an individual who is greatly admired for his or her significant and ongoing contributions to the field of radio. Hats off to the 2004 recipient, Susan Stamberg.
Year: 2004
Producers:
- Susan Stamberg
State park ranger Ed Werler lives alone in a quiet, isolated area of Maine. At the age of 90, Ed reflects on his second marriage, revealing a relationship characterized by love, loyalty, and uncertainty.
Year: 2004
Producers:
- Bente Birkland
Stephen Goff's life changed dramatically after a stroke left him with aphasia. Previously an outspoken father and salesman, the condition reduced his vocabulary to just a few words.
Year: 2004
Producers:
- Teresa Goff
Writer Sam Swope visits a class of restless, imaginative 11-year-olds in Queens, New York, where he embraces the challenge of teaching them Wallace Stevens' poem "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird."
Year: 2004
Producers:
- Pejk Malinovski
When Daniel Sosa turned 18, his father kicked him out of the house for being gay. Daniel describes the night he was forced to leave, the struggles he faces as a high school student living on his own, and his desire to return home again.
Year: 2004
Producers:
- Amy Drozdowska
- Hillary Frank
Nubar Alexanian and his 14-year-old daughter Abby examine how his tinnitus and her hearing loss have affected their lives and shaped their relationship.
Year: 2004
Producers:
- Abby Alexanian
- Jay Allison
- Nubar Alexanian
Traditionally a country of emigration, Greece is now a destination for immigrants and refugees seeking to enter Europe.
Year: 2004
Producers:
- Lea Redfern
- Peggy Giakoumelos
Weaving together archival footage, new interviews and personal recordings, The Few Who Stayed: Defying Genocide in Rwanda presents a unique look at the Rwandan genocide of 1994.
Year: 2004
Producers:
- Michael Montgomery
- Stephen Smith
The vision for Ladysmith Black Mambazo came to Joseph Shabalala in a dream in four-part harmony.
Year: 2004
Producers:
- David Schulman
- Jeffrey Freymann-Weyr
When mothers suffer from mental or physical illnesses, their eldest children often take on responsibilities far beyond their years.
Year: 2004
Producers:
- Kim Normanton
- Nigel Acheson
Weighing the Balance evolved from a simple question: What happened to six men who were named and shamed in a very public news conference staged by the Toronto Police?
Year: 2005
Producers:
- Dick Miller
- Kellie Hudson
- Mike Bryan
Fifteen-year-old Rocky, a Palestinian American, lives with his parents and siblings in Brooklyn. Three times the size of his twin sister, Rocky is the target of his siblings' jokes and insults.
Year: 2005
Producers:
- Czerina Patel
- Samr "Rocky" Tayeh
For centuries, Newfoundland fisheries were hailed as the greatest in the world. Then, in 1992, their main export, the codfish, disappeared.
Year: 2005
Producers:
- Chris Brookes
The grandeur and power of Wagner's monumental work, The Ring Cycle, has permeated our culture to the point that "Wagnerian" is used as an adjective.
Year: 2005
Producers:
- Aaron Cohen
- Elena Park
- Jad Abumrad
Somewhere between a documentary, a remix, and a music show, the eight-part series The Wire: The Impact of Electricity on Music, reflects on changes in both the composition and consumption of music over the past century.
Year: 2005
Producers:
- Chris Brookes
- Jowi Taylor
- Paolo Pietropaolo
Hearing Voices is a compelling and adventurous exploration of languages on the verge of extinction.
Year: 2005
Producers:
- John Wynne
After waiting for Mr. Right (who has yet to arrive) and experiencing years of fertility treatments, Suzanne, a single woman in her 40s, decides to adopt an African-American baby.
Year: 2005
Producers:
- Dan Collison
- Elizabeth Meister
"Between Friends" is the story of one woman's coming to terms with being sexually victimized by her father.
Year: 2006
Producers:
- Jody Porter
- Neil Sandell
Memories of a much beloved grandmother resurface when a box of unlabeled audio cassettes is discovered in the basement.
Year: 2006
Producers:
- Mira Burt-Wintonick
This story is a window into the life of Mohammed Naseehu Ali, who left his home, family, and future in tribal government to become a musician and writer in America.
Year: 2006
Producers:
- Ann Heppermann
- Kara Oehler
- Rick Moody
Roger Dowds wasn't exactly an obvious pick for a game show contestant. He'd lived a quiet, sheltered life and had little faith in himself.
Year: 2006
Producers:
- Ronan Kelly
The Jewish burial ritual places great importance on treating the deceased with the utmost honor and respect. This is especially important during the ceremony of taharah, which involves the physical cleansing of the dead body.
Year: 2006
Producers:
- Rebecca Sheir
"Bohemian Rhapsody" by Queen is one of the most ambitious and enduring pop songs of all time.
Year: 2005
Producers:
- Alan Hall
In South Africa more than five million people are living with HIV/AIDS, including a young woman named Thembi Ngubane.
Year: 2006
Producers:
- Joe Richman
- Anayansi Diaz-Cortes
Laura Starecheski finds herself figuratively falling down a rabbit hole (microphone and all) as she embarks on a journey that begins with the story of a goat, a cow, and a box of old letters.
Year: 2006
Producers:
- Ellen Horne
- Jad Abumrad
- Laura Starecheski
My Lobotomy explores one of medical history's most controversial chapters -- when transorbital lobotomies were widely condoned -- through one man's personal journey.
Year: 2006
Producers:
- David Isay
- Piya Kochar
The Third Coast Audio Luminary Award is presented annually to an individual who is greatly admired for his or her significant and ongoing contributions to the field of radio. Hats off to the 2007 Audio Luminary - widely esteemed producer, teacher, and mentor Peter Leonhard Braun.
Year: 2007
Producers:
- Peter Leonhard Braun
Producer Katie Mingle narrates her quest to find ghosts in a "pauper's graveyard" in New Orleans.
Year: 2007
Producers:
- Katie Mingle
The Ground We Lived On documents the loving relationship between journalist Adrian Nicole LeBlanc and her father, Adrian Leon LeBlanc, in the last months of his life.
Year: 2007
Producers:
- David Isay
- Adrian Nicole LeBlanc
In the 2006 conflict between Hezbollah and the state of Israel, one man took it upon himself to "resist with his pen," to bear witness for his people and bring the world, in his words, "the real news from Beirut."
Year: 2007
Producers:
- Anna Burns
F. Scott Fitzgerald's tale of old money, new money, drinking, and adultery - a thin little book that critics panned - is still the best novel about the American Dream and its discontents.
Year: 2007
Producers:
- Emily Botein
In 1942, Edna Lavilla Haynes died from a backyard abortion. After her death Edna was never mentioned again.
Year: 2007
Producers:
- Eurydice Aroney
- Sharon Davis
How do we deal with dying? Most of us look away, but in the case of the Zagar family, they look closer.
Year: 2007
Producers:
- Lu Olkowski
Surjit Sachdev grew up in a conservative family in India. Surjit's father was an engineer, and he's an engineer, but the family tradition ended when Surjit's son was born with a severe mental disability.
Year: 2007
Producers:
- Carma Jolly
- Surjit Sachdev
Would you pick up a ringing payphone and share your life with a complete stranger? Alan Dein hopes so.
Year: 2007
Producers:
- Alan Dein
- Mark Burman
Andrew Skillings is eleven now, but he was first diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome, a high functioning form of autism, when he was just two.
Year: 2008
Producers:
- Erin Davis
Leanne Wolfe, an 18-year-old schoolgirl in Cork, Ireland, committed suicide in March, 2007. On the morning of her funeral, her older sister Treena discovered Leanne's diaries.
Year: 2008
Producers:
- Ciaran Cassidy
Among the victims of the powerful earthquake near Chengdu, China, are hundreds of young students who are feared dead after being trapped in the rubble of their middle school.
Year: 2008
Producers:
- Andrea Hsu
- Melissa Block
Dreaming of Osama explores the ever-moving boundaries of the "war on terror" and its influence on the collective unconscious. Osama Bin Laden has a way of lying low -- then, just as the public begins to forget about him, he makes an unexpected reappearance.
Year: 2008
Producers:
- Pejk Malinovski
Searching for Farming's Future in Its Past is part of a series produced by Rachel Leventhal about the impact individuals can make on their world.
Year: 2008
Producers:
- Rachel Leventhal
This documentary, a special collaboration between This American Life and NPR News, deconstructs the current housing crisis.
Year: 2008
Producers:
- Adam Davidson
- Alex Blumberg
Hearts, Lungs, and Minds is a "composed documentary" by sound artist John Wynne, who spent a year as an artist in residence at Harefield Hospital, one of the world's leading centers for heart and lung transplants.
Year: 2008
Producers:
- John Wynne
At age 21, Shirley Diaz is on the brink of aging out of the foster care system. Her life isn't easy now, and soon she'll be on her own, facing a new set of daunting issues.
Year: 2008
Producers:
- Melissa Allison
- Shirley "Star" Diaz
In the wake of a break-up, writer Starlee Kine finds so much comfort in break-up songs that she tries to write one herself, even though she has no musical ability whatsoever.
Year: 2008
Producers:
- Starlee Kine
In times of crisis the impact of radio coverage on peoples' lives is easy to assess. But day in and day out, how does radio touch the communities or subjects it portrays, and the audience it reaches?
Year: 2001
This panel, moderated by Melissa Giraud, brings together two producers (Jay Allison and Elizabeth Meister) who were among the first in public radio and audio production to bring their innovation to the Internet, for a conversation about translating radio stories onto the Web and creating new art forms altogether.
Year: 2001
Who's talking to the next generation of public radio listeners? This session, moderated by Ellin O'Leary, turns the mic over to some of the young producers who are busy expanding the audio documentary form by bringing energy and fresh ideas to the world of radio.
Year: 2001
Do it yourself! This session is geared toward non-professionals and young people who want to learn more about telling stories for radio.
Year: 2001
Producing "outside the box" is a challenge to the formulaic landscape of public radio, whether you're producing a sound art parody or poetic essay or a show bent on surprising its listeners.
Year: 2001
David Isay and Dan Collison play excerpts of their radio documentary work and discuss specific challenges, triumphs, and surprises encountered while producing various stories.
Year: 2001
Alan Hall focuses on radio's capacity to evoke a sense of place that exists uniquely in a non-visual, linear dimension.
Year: 2001
Radio is an excellent medium for investigative reporting, so why do we hear so little of it on the air?
Year: 2001
The Kitchen Sisters skillfully lead this panel about creative and unusual approaches and techniques for producing compelling radio stories, including what can be learned from other media, like television and film.
Year: 2001
What does it take to get your work on the national airwaves? Representatives from NPR, PRI, and the Public Radio Exchange, with the assistance of moderator Julia McEvoy, explain how to get work on national programs and how to distribute stand-alone specials and series.
Year: 2002
The three legs of the tripod of radio —- voice, text, and sound -— are interdependent, and all contribute to the "voice" of any radio piece. Independent producer Karen Michel presents work that demonstrates different styles of voice and discusses what makes each one unique.
Year: 2002
With a little savvy and practice, magic can happen between two people and a microphone. Taki Telonidis and Hal Cannon outline the basic elements of conducting an interview, both in technical and human terms, by playing great examples and bringing in the wisdom of master interviewers on public radio.
Year: 2002
Music and sound bring layers of meaning to your work. Incorporating them most effectively starts with looking for the movement and metaphor in your materials. Using examples from her own features, Sherre DeLys presents different approaches to integrated sound design.
Year: 2002
Ira Glass plays and talks about radio and print journalism that has inspired him, including some surprising 1970s-era NPR documentaries which may be long forgotten by most.
Year: 2002
Longtime proponent of radio as a fluid and flexible medium, Gregory Whitehead plays a variety of work from around the world and gives a philosophical and pragmatic talk on the role of imaginative radio in an increasingly congested media landscape.
Year: 2002
Jay Allison leads a discussion about the ways in which documentarians must be skilled in the art of trespassing...
Year: 2002
The radio "feature" is a long-standing tradition of European broadcasting, a format with a style all its own. Kaye Mortley, an independent producer based in France, describes the feature this way: "These pieces are mind movies -- road movies sculpted out of reality.
Year: 2002
Diamonds are made under pressure! For this session, Priya Ramu and Steve Wadhams from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation present their advice on how to make daily radio that shines and delights.
Year: 2002
So, you've got your assignment. You've done your research, you've collected your tape, and now it's time (oh god) to write. In this panel discussion, moderated by Robert Krulwich, we examine the Everest and K-2 of story telling: How to Begin and (assuming you can get past that one) How to End.
Year: 2002
Their work comes from the heart and gives us a glimpse into the most enigmatic of worlds: teenagehood. Listen in as young producers from around the country present their work and talk about how they're making radio relevant for a new generation.
Year: 2003
Their work comes from the heart and gives us a glimpse into the most enigmatic of worlds: teenagehood. Listen in as young producers from around the country present their work and talk about how they're making radio relevant for a new generation.
Year: 2003
After a long day of taping in the field, have you ever felt that you failed to capture the true essence of your location?
Year: 2003
It's not always easy to put aside the culturally-formed listening patterns we take for granted and hear radio in fresh ways.
Year: 2003
Creative sound projects are increasingly blurring the lines between radio, audio documentary, sound art, and music.
Year: 2003
Arthur Godfrey had it. So did Bob and Ray. And Ken Nordine has it, too. "It": the magical quality that makes you feel they're talking to you and you alone.
Year: 2003
Sound editor Walter Murch (The Godfather, Apocalypse Now, The English Patient), sound designer Randy Thom (The Right Stuff, The Thin Blue Line), and radio artist Joe Frank deconstruct excerpts from their work...
Year: 2003
No one likes to make mistakes, but the difference between you (brilliant producer) and the guy next to you (average producer) is in learning how to use those mistakes to your advantage.
Year: 2003
How do documentary producers and artists address the most common issues in the news and shed new light on them?
Year: 2003
Narrative deceptions, perverse fictions, audio portraiture: this conversation between feature-makers Natalie Kestecher and Susan Stone explores the interplay of story, character, and music, as well as the delights of creative ambiguity and communication in Kestecher's luminous, protean work.
Year: 2003
In 2003 the TCF introduced our "ShortDocs", by inviting producersto submit written proposals for radio stories (five to seven minutes in length) about a single topic - 'thirst'.
Year: 2003
When facts cannot plumb the depths, shall we lie? In this session, producers listen to and discuss radio documentaries that use fiction and dramatic elements to get to the truth.
Year: 2004
Most producers and reporters spend their days "feeding the machine" -- cranking out short-form work on a daily, sometimes hourly deadline, with no time for second guesses. However, a lot of news coverage is formulaic and, frankly, dull.
Year: 2004
Matt Hulse presents short audio works by a diverse range of inventive audio artists and filmmakers, created specifically for "a darkened cinema."
Year: 2004
It's common enough to learn about youth culture through the observations of experts and adults, but so much more intriguing to hear it straight from the hearts and minds of the teenagers navigating through their own worlds.
Year: 2004
It's common enough to learn about youth culture through the observations of experts and adults, but so much more intriguing to hear it straight from the hearts and minds of the teenagers navigating through their own worlds.
Year: 2004
Jacki Lyden has been an NPR contributor and host for more than two decades, reporting on vital issues at home and abroad and winning numerous awards for her work.
Year: 2004
Producers and long-time friends Whitney Dow and Marco Williams (Two Tone Productions) discuss the making of their film Two Towns of Jasper, a documentary about the racially motivated murder of James Byrd, who in 1998 was dragged to his death after being beaten then chained to the back of a pick-up truck in Jasper, Texas.
Year: 2004
Producers come to editors with their tape, a vision, and a piece in various stages of completion. Editors bring their skills, a fresh set of ears, a fat red pen, and often the mandate of an established show format.
Year: 2004
David Isay and Alex Kotlowitz both try to discover extraordinary stories in "ordinary people."
Year: 2004
Do metaphors inherently deepen a story? Can using metaphors be more effective than revealing direct facts and information about a subject?
Year: 2004
For the 2004 ShortDocs Challenge, we asked producers to submit ideas for stories about "darkness."
Year: 2004
Washington Post reporter Anne Hull shares her thoughts about how to capture an environment that reveals the world of a particular subject to your audience: by paying attention to detail and hopefully avoiding familiar cliches.
Year: 2005
Join podcast pioneers and radio producers Benjamen Walker and Tod Maffin to discover how podcasting, in less than one year, changed broadcasting forever.
Year: 2005
When David Kestenbaum tells people he covers science for NPR, they often say something like "it must be hard explaining such complicated ideas in such a short amount of time!" Well, it is.
Year: 2005
Radio makers have many techniques at their disposal for crafting each story they tell, including one in particular that gets used and abused more than any other: scoring.
Year: 2005
Teenagers are making some of the most engaging radio out there! Their refreshing perspectives and creative techniques are lighting up the radio and signaling good things for the future sound of the airwaves.
Year: 2005
This session is: 1) A brief survey of field recording by that and other names, with an emphasis on non-pragmatic applications of recording technology such as musique concrete (last century) and phonography (this one);
Year: 2005
Susan Stamberg, who figures she's conducted some 30,000 interviews in her brief career, plays examples of smart, dumb, informed, innocent, and baggage-laden questions, and discusses how to decide when each is appropriate.
Year: 2005
Radio transmissions are heard all over the world, from the largest urban centers to the smallest mountain villages. But what defines radio from a particular place, and what makes it different than radio from elsewhere?
Year: 2005
Most of us use our voices in our work, but finding our "Voice" is an often overlooked part of our creative development. Hear what professionals from a variety of different fields have to say about this elusive aspect of our craft.
Year: 2005
What makes one story pitch so irresistible it's a "yes" halfway through... and the next doomed for rejection?
Year: 2005
For the 2005 ShortDocs Challenge, we asked producers to submit ideas for stories about "games."
Year: 2005
How can a producer prepare to make radio stories about distant lands and the people who live there, and why tell those stories anyway?
Year: 2006
Youth producers are creating some of the most revealing and moving work on the radio these days, and we've curated a collection of gems for you.
Year: 2006
The voice of the storyteller is often overlooked but it's a vital part of making great radio. Marilyn Pittman shows you how to make your narration tracks authentic and compelling with her many tips and techniques.
Year: 2006
Millions of bloggers write every day about their own towns, industries, and lives. As a radio producer you can work with a nation -- a world – of storytellers to find out about everything from French politics to knitting habits in Iowa.
Year: 2006
Kenneth Goldsmith explores the audio interstices between sound art, found sound, and the full gamut of noises that humans make.
Year: 2006
Kari Hesthamar demonstrates the distinctive sound of Norwegian radio features by playing and talking about some of the most important elements of her own work -- creating small films for listeners' ears, capturing the true essence of a scene, and producing stories that come alive through the use of the present tense.
Year: 2006
Nearly 68,000 foundations in the U.S. together give away more than $30 billion per year. So how can you get some of it?
Year: 2006
So you're a great writer, and you've pretty much got interviewing down, but something's just... missing. Sound. The sounds we use and how we use them can say so much in a radio story, but often that potential goes untapped.
Year: 2006
This session explores "found narration" - archival tape, interviews, audio diary entries - and sound that can all be used to perform the job of the narrator. What do you gain and what do you give up when you throw away the script?
Year: 2006
Do your own radio scripts ever bore you? Or frustrate, confuse, and deflate you?
Year: 2006
Attention new producers! Before heading out into the world with headphones on and mic facing forward, what do you need to know? Here's where you find out.
Year: 2006
Producers:
- Rob Rosenthal
What inspires those who inspire us? Robert Krulwich reveals a few especially memorable pieces, presenting a sampler of radio stories that he adores, has learned from, and wants to share.
Year: 2006
Producers:
- Robert Krulwich
For the 2006 ShortDocs Challenge, the Third Coast was inspired by and collaborated with cartoonist and illustrator Matt Madden.
Year: 2006
Producers:
- Carma Jolly
- Jill Dorothy Summers
- Julie Shapiro
- Matt Madden
- Sasha Aslanian
- Zoe Irvine
Let's face it: you're funny and cunning and smart and insightful; disarming, direct, and hopelessly attractive. Why not give the people what they want -- more you! Sure you're not what the story is about.
Year: 2007
It's hard enough to pitch a story to a public radio show -- are you willing to risk rejection from a whole new set of people? Daniel Sternberg talks about taking all of your talents, training, and neuroses and applying them to the world of podcasting.
Year: 2007
The best "real time" radio sounds live and spontaneous, but requires forethought and structure. This session focuses on how to do "stand up" in the field -- what works and what doesn't.
Year: 2007
In certain radio stories, sounds exist only in the mind of the storyteller and can't be physically recorded -- like dreams, memories, and predictions. How do you create a soundscape that brings "the sounds inside" to life?
Year: 2007
In a time when commercial interests continue to stake a claim to audiences' attentions on the Internet, artists continue to explore the narrowcast as a vehicle for simultaneously cultivating an audience and developing a body of work.
Year: 2007
Everyone's telling their story these days –- in blogs, podcasts, on YouTube. But what makes one story a yawn or self-indulgent and another one compelling? How do you tell a personal story as a radio documentary?
Year: 2007
Listen in as teen producers from around the country present a survey of their work, with bonus features: the sounds they love to listen to, with commentary on why, and tape that didn't make the final cut in production, with commentary on why not.
Year: 2007
Listen in as teen producers from around the country present a survey of their work, with bonus features: the sounds they love to listen to, with commentary on why, and tape that didn't make the final cut in production, with commentary on why not.
Year: 2007
A well-crafted scene, heard on the radio, opens a window onto a new world and allows the listener to fly right in. Claire Schoen explores the process of creating scenes -- showing real people living their lives -- for an audio documentary.
Year: 2007
Beyond being atmospheric and scene setting, music can play an active role in audio pieces. David Greenberger has worked with a wide range of musicians and composers for his radio monologues, which are adapted from conversations he has with the elderly.
Year: 2007
In collaboration with the Association of Independents in Radio (AIR), this session addresses how to successfully pitch radio stories and series ideas to stations, networks, and other acquirers of independent work.
Year: 2007
In collaboration with the Association of Independents in Radio (AIR), this session addresses how to successfully pitch radio stories and series ideas to stations, networks, and other acquirers of independent work.
Year: 2007
Flying across the last 50 years of international feature production is like looking out of an aircraft at night. Looking down you see the illuminated cities, the many shining villages, but far more than everything else you see the sparkling spots of individual talent.
Year: 2007
The established elements of Feature productions have been words, music, actualities, and effects.
Year: 2007
Documenting somebody else's life is one of the hardest challenges producers face in their work. Over an extended period of time relationships intensify, stories often change drastically, and the line between personal and too personal blurs easily.
Year: 2007
Documenting somebody else's life is one of the hardest challenges producers face in their work. Over an extended period of time relationships intensify, stories often change drastically, and the line between personal and too personal blurs easily.
Year: 2007
What inspires those who inspire us? Seasoned producer Jay Allison shares work that inspired him a long time ago and inspires him today, work that contains a healthy measure of invention and play -- key ingredients of creativity, even in a serious world.
Year: 2007
For the 2007 ShortDocs Challenge, the Third Coast was inspired by and collaborated with the Dollar Store Show - a regular reading and performance series in Chicago.
Year: 2007
Perfect your pitching skills and present your ideas to program producers and editors — or just listen in — as AIR (Association for Independents in Radio) pulls back the curtain to let us in on how stories make it to the airwaves.
Year: 2008
Perfect your pitching skills and present your ideas to program producers and editors - or just listen in - as AIR (Association for Independents in Radio) pulls back the curtain to let us in on how stories make it to the airwaves.
Year: 2008
From CF and SD memory cards back to 24-track - with stops for MD, DAT, and cassette - Noah Adams rambles through 30 years of radio production, playing the stories that inspired his own work and that of countless others.
Year: 2008
Greg Allen, the creator of Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind -- the show which has spawned nearly 10,000 short plays -- conducts a workshop on generating new material, exploring new forms, and beating writer's block.
Year: 2008
Some respond to praise, others to badgering, some the frontal assault, others when you sneak up from behind. Brooke Gladstone offers a few interrogation tips (and some audio examples) on how to get your guests to crack and make them like it.
Year: 2008
Art forms such as film, literature and even TV, generate rich bodies of critcal writing that push the boundaries of what creators do and why, and gives audiences new ways to appreciate the work.
Year: 2008
Fifty years ago, folksingers Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger collaborated with BBC Radio producer Charles Parker to create an amazing body of work - the Radio Ballads.
Year: 2008
A bad editor is a curse. Having a good editor is a blessing but can often be a luxury. Deborah George explains how to work effectively with the editor you've been dealt and how to be your own editor if you don't have one.
Year: 2008
Microphones cannot capture situations as they are percieved. A car crash on tape lacks everything that the experience of an accident amounts to: the surprise, the holding of breath, the shock, the sadness.
Year: 2008
All around the country college students are asking for and receiving new courses that teach audio production. They're intent on finishing college with multi-media skills, and, lucky for us, they want to help shape the future of documentary audio.
Year: 2008
All around the country college students are asking for and receiving new courses that teach audio production. They're intent on finishing college with multi-media skills, and, lucky for us, they want to help shape the future of documentary audio.
Year: 2008
Common sense dictates that a good radio story should start with a firm sense of what the story is. But what if you only have the vaguest sense of the story -- whether it's a scenario, or an idea, or even a joke you'd like to tell?
Year: 2008
Alessandro Bosetti talks of the tremors felt while approaching somebody else's life with a microphone in-hand, when fears of exploitation combine with implacable curiosity and the possibility that neither you nor your interviewee will understand each other's intentions.
Year: 2008
Ever wonder what inspires, obsesses and ignites the Kitchen Sisters? Find out during this hour-plus showcase of audio (and other less-evolved art forms) culled from their accidental archive and the stirring work of others.
Year: 2008
Andrey Allakhverdov, from the Foundation for Independent Radio Broadcasting (based in Russia), talks about what the FNR is up to over in Moscow, and introduces the timezone-bending modern-day audio legend Lenin's Ears.
Year: 2008
For the 2008 TCF ShortDocs Challenge, the TCF joined forces with the Prelinger Library, a one-of-a-kind collection of books, periodicals, and more, running the gamut from the concrete and tangible to the abstract and etherized.
Year: 2008
Maria wants to be married in every state.
Year: 2006
Producers:
- Andy, Tourist in the City
A brother reflects on his turbulent relationship with sister after hearing a phone message.
Year: 2006
Producers:
- Jody Melto
It's an Eastern Romance action-surrealist film, but He and She, they didn't get along so well.
Year: 2006
Producers:
- Liz Bustamante
Shalt thou dispute With Him the points of liberty? (Milton)
Year: 2006
Producers:
- Tim Forrest
Each year, the football teams from the U of California and Stanford U. play in The Big Game; now for the first time, they meet in the arena of cooking in The Big Cookoff.
Year: 2006
Producers:
- Nico Savidge
How did the mammoths die? Where did the Indian Ocean come from?
Year: 2006
Producers:
- Delaney Hall
- Nick Hunt
- Rachel Pearson
A call for the folk hero of a 1948 protest song to rise up against the misuse of his name, which is being slathered across the very thing he fought against.
Year: 2006
Producers:
- Kristopher Carter
Robert McNamara, the Soviet Ambassador and President Lyndon Johnson face off in a historical remix.
Year: 2006
Producers:
- Theo Lipfert
Two lousy-sounding atoms can't get along, cause the Big Bang, and disrupt present-day international harmony.
Year: 2006
Producers:
- David Polk
A G-Rated ice-breaker that would be told during a female bonding session.
Year: 2006
Producers:
- Kay Collins
Woody Guthrie backs up an interview with a Virginia National Guard soldier at an American base in Mosul, Iraq during early 2005.
Year: 2006
Producers:
- Steve Walsh
Boston Common + drum + activist + drunken panhandler = police intervention.
Year: 2006
Producers:
- Justin Grotelueschen
Two girls don't see eye to eye on what defines a bright future.
Year: 2006
Producers:
- Katie Day Good
What happened when Ligeti's ghost helped me create a sound piece.
Year: 2006
Producers:
- Jeffrey Letterly
Mabel and Dexter prove that one can experience culture clash and true love simultaneously.
Year: 2006
Producers:
- Amy Pickett
- Chip Bradley
Surreal as it may seem, this rock band became very famous.
Year: 2006
Producers:
- Derek Simons
You have to ask someone to dance with you, and you have to accept when they ask you to dance.
Year: 2006
Producers:
- Julia Grant
Apartment sounds reveal a roommate crisis, the unwanted sharing of a territory.
Year: 2006
Producers:
- Christine Morin
- Marie-France Garon
The answering machine traps a surprising revelation from an "old friend."
Year: 2006
Producers:
- Lawrence Dolton
A narrator tackles disembodied voices; admitting she seeks out the strange while actual Electronic Voice Phenomenon reverberates in a surreal background.
Year: 2006
Producers:
- Carolina Wheat
A whisper of memory to transcend the frame of context and the boundary of plot.
Year: 2006
Producers:
- Jamie Proctor
Through diary entries, the relationship between a cat and the new, live-in boyfriend is revealed.
Year: 2006
Producers:
- Mark A. Tolstedt
Superstition, money, rules, bullshit, loud guitars, talking Moses and Jesus, and Santa!
Year: 2006
Producers:
- Big Swifty
New light on the wanderings of Odysseus provided by the discovery of Penelope's answering machine tape.
Year: 2006
Producers:
- David Henderson
The sounds of Turkish pop star Tarkan melds with possibly the most annoying roommate ever.
Year: 2006
Producers:
- Cyrus Farivar
- Rebeka Kouy-Ghadosh
The duel between Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton rearranged for laughs and life lessons.
Year: 2006
Producers:
- Paula Rogers
The true story of Chris, who thought it would be a fun intellectual challenge to try to write a piece of air traffic control software his company had abandoned -- and what happened next.
Year: 2006
Producers:
- Heather Kitching
The computer talk show meets Saturday morning cartoons; featuring real live computer expert, Sarah Millen.
Year: 2006
Producers:
- Heather Kitching
Feuding co-workers in an auto parts factory conpsire to assemble the big one.
Year: 2006
Producers:
- Tammy Terwelp
Screams, thoughts on fear, screams, spooky music, more screams.
Year: 2006
Producers:
- Sarah Boothroyd
In a piece that captures the history of (aural) technology, text-to-speech engines prove that computers really can befuddle man.
Year: 2006
Producers:
- Dennis Conrow
Two e-lovers meet in the flesh and the thrill is gone.
Year: 2006
Producers:
- Antonio Almeida
A fawning profile of Charles Baker and Audrey Malone, the greatest voice talents of our generation.
Year: 2006
Producers:
- Deepthi Welaratna
An awkward office interaction at a temp gig gets even more awkward.
Year: 2006
Producers:
- Jonathan Menjivar
Yeah, they're handy, but cell phones sure are annoying.
Year: 2006
Producers:
- Nancy Tyler
You live in media you watch and listen to. I live in France, listen in Britain and dream outside.
Year: 2006
Producers:
- Marjorie Van Helteren
A direct reaction to the submission criteria without prior rehearsal.
Year: 2006
Producers:
- London Concrete
The story of how the Canadian Women's hockey team overcame the odds and poor officiating to win the gold medal at the 2002 Winter Olympics.
Year: 2006
Producers:
- Sherry Shute
Fluffy is a mysterious creature surrounded by bees and sweets but confronted by a hysterical mechanical animal which initially causes some angst in the surreal world of imagined adventures of Fluffy.
Year: 2006
Producers:
- Alice McNamara
An historic train puts on the grease paint and starts serving murder mysteries.
Year: 2006
Producers:
- Ceil Muller
While their daughters play on the school playground, two women become acquainted and share tales of sex and marriage gone awry.
Year: 2006
Producers:
- Nicole Schultheis Walton
A radio story about a movie by Thomas Edison that is very hard to watch.
Year: 2006
Producers:
- Brett Beyer
Sinister entertainment with a tape recorder: a found message left for a girlfriend degenerates into drunken squabbling over a reading of a Burn's poem.
Year: 2006
Producers:
- Mark Vernon
Found tape diary of a family holiday recorded for Grandma and Grandpa; a six-legged intruder spoils the fun.
Year: 2006
Producers:
- Mark Vernon
As the story continues, we finally learn that conservatives share some sort of nostalgia with liberals.
Year: 2006
Producers:
- Alfred Koch
A virtual verbal boxing match between literature's leading man of men and feisty feminist flapper Zelda Fitzgerald.
Year: 2006
Producers:
- Amber Cortes
This piece retells (and remixes) the NBA soap opera of Shaq + Kobe in an audio cartoon created with the on-the-court assistance of the talented Kevin Smith and amplified by music from Shaquille O'Neal, sampled game sounds, and press conference audio clips taken wildly and egregiously out of context.
Year: 2006
Producers:
- David Schulman
A woman tries to come to terms with a breakup and a package of bacon.
Year: 2006
Producers:
- Sue Mell
As if / to discuss the world / John Cage / Joseph Beuys
Year: 2006
Producers:
- Jean-Claude Kuner
In a small village in India, a 90 KG stone levitates when the name of sufi saint Qamar Ali Dervish is chanted.
Year: 2006
Producers:
- Jeanette Werkhoven
A former inmate (John McCullough), a former guard (Donald Vaughn) and Steve Buscemi guide the listener through 1960's prison reform via the Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia, PA.
Year: 2006
Producers:
- Peter Crimmins
Domestic duet for mother and six year old.
Year: 2006
Producers:
- Eurydice Aroney
- Stuart Brown
- Tom Morton
How can we make sense of the communication and resource problems identified long before Hurricane Katrina that led to such tragic consequences for many residents of New Orleans?
Year: 2006
Producers:
- Christine McKenna
Composed from sounds recorded during a residency at the National Science and Technology Museum, Taiwan, this is a story about communication.
Year: 2006
Producers:
- Jayne Fenton Keane
A woman remembers the most important person in her life.
Year: 2006
Producers:
- Lee Fuoco
Jayne Fenton Keane talks with India's former Socialist Defence Minister, Mr. George Fernandes, and former President of the Socialist Party of India, Ms. Jaya Jaitley, about the Railway Strikes of 1975 that brought down Sonia Ghandi's government.
Year: 2006
Producers:
- Jayne Fenton Keane
Will Midori and her brother Yoshitoro overcome their antipathies and meet again?
Year: 2006
Producers:
- Christian Gasser
An inquiry into the nature of human relationships over the course of eons, featuring musical accompaniment in diverse time signatures, and a British narrator.
Year: 2006
Producers:
- Michael Hearst
- Rick Moody
Drummer relates previous evening's adventures with keyboard-playing brother.
Year: 2006
Producers:
- Nic Beery
After one year of social work experience: autism / misuse / to society.
Year: 2006
Producers:
- Martin Kolber-Jaskulski
A man and his dagger part ways after the dagger has second thoughts.
Year: 2006
Producers:
- Allison Schuette-Hoffman
Baglama begins and ends chopped interviews with seniors about love and death and music.
Year: 2006
Producers:
- Eric Markowitz
Children in a behavior program speak up about respect, against the metaphorical soundscape of the Institution.
Year: 2006
Producers:
- Susan B. Price
To begin, restating rules is used to avoid actually following rules, just as this more-than-one-sentence description avoids the request for a single sentence through the misuse of the semi-colon; later, mundane answering machine messages become menacing, as the producer manipulates their meaning with music.
Year: 2006
Producers:
- Neil Sandell
A radio producer deals with a case of 'broadcaster's block' by asking the question "What would Johnny do?"
Year: 2006
Producers:
- Kent Hoffman
The myth of Narcissus reimagined: the north pole of a magnet bar falls tragically in love with the north pole of another magnet bar.
Year: 2006
Producers:
- Bruce Wallace
- Lawrence Lanahan
Melds the incredible auctioneering skills of Dan Skeels, the 2004 World Livestock Auctioneering Champion, with the electronic sounds of Nick Freilich, aka Epicte the Elemental.
Year: 2006
Producers:
- Cyrus Farivar
2006 ShortDocs Winner! Two curious siblings finally get what they think they've always wanted.
Year: 2006
Producers:
- David Whitcomb
- Jill Dorothy Summers
2006 ShortDocs Winner! A crush on a telemarketer results in betrayal.
Year: 2006
Producers:
- Carma Jolly
2006 ShortDocs Winner! Translation -- Sylvain, Bruno, Zoe, and Youssef at the PRIM Centre in Montreal, summer 2006.
Year: 2006
Producers:
- Zoe Irvine
2006 ShortDocs Winner! Producer Sasha Aslanian's divorced parents listen to audio of their 1963 wedding vows, remember what went wrong, but still can't get over each other.
Year: 2006
Producers:
- Sasha Aslanian
In the Last Frontier, sometimes it isn't "Go Fish," it's "Go Mouse."
Year: 2007
Producers:
- Rebecca Sheir
A young Soviet 'Pioneer' (i.e. boy scout) squares off with the CIA -- will he live to tell the tale?
Year: 2007
Producers:
- Charles Maynes
Richard Lerman reflects on Travelon Gamelon, a piece he wrote in 1970 for amplified bicycles.
Year: 2007
Producers:
- Rene Gutel
Elizabeth sits at her kitchen table, contemplating a recent coworker's gift and wrestling with the advice it gives her.
Year: 2007
Producers:
- Dirk van der Duim
Chance encounters on an April morning show it's the little things in life that can make all the difference.
Year: 2007
Producers:
- Jim Barfuss
Here's a story of newness and wonder and remembering experience before language.
Year: 2007
Producers:
- WJ Carlton
Context is a bitch -- just ask mice. On earth they're seen as pests and carriers of disease, but space is another story altogether.
Year: 2007
Producers:
- Anne Glickman
- Jennifer Brandel
A daughter finds an old picture of her mother and sees her mother differently.
Year: 2007
Producers:
- Melissa Canciller
A short, poetic instruction manual for the man who wishes to philander or have an extra-marital affair, but doesn't know where to begin.
Year: 2007
Producers:
- Elizabeth Bloom Albert
A son remembers a woman who loved instant coffee and who may or may not have enjoyed being a housewife.
Year: 2007
Producers:
- Dennis Conrow
I overcome my fears and manage to rid our home of a mouse.
Year: 2007
Producers:
- David Daskal
The thoughts of a creative woman of valor, who might never make history.
Year: 2007
Producers:
- Suzy Kahn
"No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main . . . any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee." - John Donne (1572-1631)
Year: 2007
Producers:
- Jeff Peters
- Tim Forrest
A short tale of youth and nostalgia, bringing back past memories of the notorious nerve racking bike bell that we loved -- and mom hated!
Year: 2007
Producers:
- Darlene Dennard
A daughter and her father argue about the relative merits of his vocation.
Year: 2007
Producers:
- Joe Giovannetti
My brother and I thought the greatest Christmas gift we ever gave each other were mousetrap stocking stuffers . . .
Year: 2007
Producers:
- Jamie Dell'Apa
On the boardwalk, in search of the sound of bicycle bells.
Year: 2007
Producers:
- Stephanie Rowden
Audio montage featuring the voices of women protesters and a service man remembering life in the 1980s at Greenham Common, England, a miitary base for American nuclear missiles.
Year: 2007
Producers:
- Anna Norberg
- Simon Norberg
A fourteen-year-old girl tries to throw her voice and ends up getting thrown herself.
Year: 2007
Producers:
- Roxana Hadad
- Shiow-Jiau Yung
A pregnant woman lets a bell say everything she can't.
Year: 2007
Producers:
- Megan Stielstra
- Shiow-Jiau Yung
The gripping tale of a troubled Buddhist as he struggles with morals and mice in this short radio fiction based rather loosely on a true story.
Year: 2007
Producers:
- Philip Briant
- Stuart Ewings
Tragic kitchen incident inspires manic musings on singing mice.
Year: 2007
Producers:
- David Swatling
A coffee mug holds a special place in the heart of its owner.
Year: 2007
Producers:
- Audrey Berns
This is a true story about bike commuting, theft and making the best of a bad situation.
Year: 2007
Producers:
- Mia Lobel
Feminist historian Sally Roesch Wagner muses that well-behaved women rarely make history while mis-behaved radicals, such as 19th century women's rights and peace activist Matilda Joslyn Gage, seldom make history books.
Year: 2007
Producers:
- Catherine Stifter
One mother's attempt to fight off an invasion of mice just after her two-year-old son has been diagnosed with leukemia.
Year: 2007
Producers:
- Robert McGinley Myers
All women buy things that they don't really need. Why are they doing this?
Year: 2007
Producers:
- Alexander Soleev
The sounds of the city resonate as Hong Kong comes to life through audio mosaic and three voices: a traveler remembers, newscasters rattle off facts and statistics, a young woman recalls a legend from her fading childhood.
Year: 2010
Producers:
- Jens Jarisch
Cats and mice, peace and war, Russia and the USA -- do you still believe in these oppositions?
Year: 2007
Producers:
- Anastasia Ivanova
A small bicycle bell rings in a big landscape.
Year: 2007
Producers:
- Keith Taylor
- Stephanie Rowden
This is a highly fictionalized retelling of a real life tale of the trapping and killing of a mouse in Fresno, California.
Year: 2007
Producers:
- Donovan Keith
- Tamara Keith
Florence is a city filled with bells: church bells, hand bells, door bells, bike bells . . .
Year: 2007
Producers:
- Lisa Tharpe
A brother and sister fight over the gifts they receive from their father.
Year: 2007
Producers:
- Max Barry
An extraordinary day in the life of an ordinary worker.
Year: 2007
Producers:
- Keith Brand
- Nathan Long
An investigation into why an ice cream truck was driving down my street at 9:30 PM.
Year: 2007
Producers:
- Gabe Bullard
Three mothers read slogans found on women's T-shirts in a local mall.
Year: 2007
Producers:
- Gabe Bullard
A guy drifts back to the years he drove around on his bike, when he should be meditating.
Year: 2007
Producers:
- Frank Karall
It's time to celebrate Old Spanish Days in Santa Barbara.
Year: 2007
Producers:
- Diane Bock
A tender portrait of the sofly spoken environmental campaigner and former world champion cyclist Judith Sanderson, who 20 years ago smashed 5 middle distance records in her sport.
Year: 2007
Producers:
- Emily Williams
If Lucy met her best friend in person, her life expectancy would be cut in half.
Year: 2007
Producers:
- Hillary Frank
Catholic mystic falls for the Ace of Spies in post-World War 1 London.
Year: 2007
Producers:
- Kay Collins
It's hard to think of anything that will last forever.
Year: 2007
Producers:
- Julia Grant
A well-intentioned yet horribly misinformed adolescent makes a monumental miscalculation of both form and judgment.
Year: 2007
Producers:
- Jill Dorothy Summers
Two life-long bachelors kvetch over the phone.
Year: 2007
Producers:
- Firestone Mulvaney
A bell realizes it's alive while on a conveyor belt and then en route to a dollar store.
Year: 2007
Producers:
- Brian Corbet
One mug brings back memories of past relationships with women.
Year: 2007
Producers:
- Pat Corbet
The love between two mice turns soar with a lacl of cheese whip and an encounter with a time warp mousetrap.
Year: 2007
Producers:
- Catie Talarski
A meandering train of thought arrives at a Dollar Storey connnection just in time.
Year: 2007
Producers:
- John Biewen
In which the coffee mugs offer explanation.
Year: 2007
Producers:
- Laura Vitale
- Rick Moody
An insecure boy discovers, through a saying on a mug, that there is more going on in the lives of others than meets the eye.
Year: 2007
Producers:
- Byron Flitsch
Composer Mark Applebaum describes the creative process he uses when inventing new instruments. He calls one of them "The Mouse Trap."
Year: 2007
Producers:
- Christopher Danforth
The mice have invaded and are having some R and R... so I might as well help them enjoy themselves.
Year: 2007
Producers:
- Chris Angelos
"The best-laid plans of mice and men go oft awry"- Rober Burns, To a Mouse [The mousetrap set recalls a long-forgotten incident in the producer's first residence in Toronto.]
Year: 2007
Producers:
- Robert Hoare
- Steven Sauve
What mice find offensive is the fact that these traps are not only lethal, but also cheap, low quality imports. (Don't mess with the mice.)
Year: 2007
Producers:
- Conor Lennon
The "Miss Cholita" pageant celebrates a female ideal that is fast disappearing among Bolivian indigenous women. This year, the pageant was shaken by a scandal: the winner had turned out to have been wearing fake braids.
Year: 2007
Producers:
- Ruxandra Guidi
The courageous story of one coffee mug trying to get by in a house of people he hates. (Writing from the perspective of the mug in the first person, present tense.)
Year: 2007
Producers:
- David Hain
A dollar store addict is confronted with a horrifying discovery among the aisles.
Year: 2007
Producers:
- Kevin Theis
Both brief reflection on mousetraps and a nod to Wallace Stevens.
Year: 2007
Producers:
- Ezekiel Weaver
Long before the women's movement even had a name, some Oak Park girls began questioning tradition without even knowing they were doing so.
Year: 2007
Producers:
- Chris Angelos
Mousetraps and other intersections between human beings and mice.
Year: 2007
Producers:
- Sue Mell
You think you're being mature and courageous, trait which will surely be rewarded with reciprocal sentiments of love...right?
Year: 2007
Producers:
- Saya April Hillman
An unscripted talk between a mom and her almost teenaged daughter, inspired by a handmade Mother's Day card listing all the things a mother should never do.
Year: 2007
Producers:
- Lucy Jan-Turan
- Ramona Jan
In addition to writing lyrically ABOUT the wonders of the dollar store phenomenon...
Year: 2007
Producers:
- Michael Hearst
- Rick Moody
The Avant Guardian fights crime using the power of surrealism and his trusty P.S.M.G.
Year: 2007
Producers:
- David Weinberg
Decommissioned Soviet mousetraps in Brooklyn's Little Odessa.
Year: 2007
Producers:
- Joe Milutis
A bike messenger provides alternatives to horrible traffic horns.
Year: 2007
Producers:
- Michael Slaboch
- Tony Mendoza
Half commentary, half documentary, the inscription on this coffee mug took me back to old memories.
Year: 2007
Producers:
- Sandra Sleight-Brennan
The coveted golden mug award is given to an actor or actress for their portrayal of an independent woman in history.
Year: 2007
Producers:
- David Weinberg
Third Coast Festival artistic director Julie Shapiro describes her rendez-vous with Dollar Store founder Jonathan Messinger at Dollar Daze in downtown Chicago, where the Dollar Storeys items were chosen.
Year: 2007
Producers:
- Johanna Zorn
- Julie Shapiro
2007 ShortDocs Winner! Advice for the bicycle bell with aspirations, featuring voice teacher Rachel Nicholson.
Year: 2007
Producers:
- Nina Perry
2007 ShortDocs Winner! Here's a rumination on the ethics of pest killing and attempts at avoidance of the graphic nature thereof.
Year: 2007
Producers:
- David Maxon
2007 ShortDocs Winner! The first step in making cookies is to purchase a metal bike jingle-bell in a western mountain town.
Year: 2007
Producers:
- Jeffrey Letterly
2007 ShortDocs Winner! The triumphs and regrets of a cup.
Year: 2007
Producers:
- Sean Hurley
Two families share very different reasons for planting a tree when their baby is born.
Year: 2008
Producers:
- Kyle Sweet-Chavez
- Sergio Chavez
This piece traces the devolution of a trailer to a tree.
Year: 2008
Producers:
- Annie Baxter
Welcome to the Harvey Carne Workout Method and Guide to Romance.
Year: 2008
Producers:
- Eric Barkin
- Laura Vitale
- Tye Pemberton
Lizzie and her sister think they are coming to Ray's just to see his monkey, but little do they know that Ray and Oscar have been sweating to the Harvey Carne Workout Method and Guide to Romance.
Year: 2008
Producers:
- Eric Barkin
- Laura Vitale
- Tye Pemberton
A periscope of my grandmother's death and how babies are made.
Year: 2008
Producers:
- Kristina Lund
A mad professor attempts to bring a cadaver to life.
Year: 2008
Producers:
- Aliza Simons
- Sara Vogel
A look at the age old dilemma -- the unexpected pregnancy, and a peek into how today's busy, independent woman approaches the unexpected news.
Year: 2008
Producers:
- Carrie Shepherd
A journey through the mind of heartache on an island that is really a peninsula.
Year: 2008
Producers:
- Carolyn Hoerdemann
Brief encounters of the inter-species communication kind.
Year: 2008
Producers:
- Amber Cortes
This is an ode to my mother and to all the similarities between us that I'm learning to embrace with the help of Tommy James and the Shondells.
Year: 2008
Producers:
- Molly Adams
A very comic and nervous Monty Python-type exploration of the life of a tree.
Year: 2008
Producers:
- Amy Denes
We all should do some work on our brains, but that "work" can be a load of fun, oh yeah.
Year: 2008
Producers:
- Frank Karall
Busting out, breaking down, success, failure, positive thinking, and finding the right trailer hitch.
Year: 2008
Producers:
- Dan Zellner
Lorene decides to make real English marmalade for a meeting being held by striking maritime workers in her town.
Year: 2008
Producers:
- Catherine Halley
- Wendy Jo Carlton
Of cheeseburgers, the Reagans, Grant Park and, of course, trees.
Year: 2008
Producers:
- Kay Collins
Buffalo resident Kathy Mecca has been resisting a proposed expansion of the Peace Bridge that threatens to destroy residential homes, architecturally important buildings, and mature trees in a neighborhood that has higher than average rates of asthma.
Year: 2008
Producers:
- Fereshteh Toosi
A weekend away begets new interactions, with a little help from Andrew Jackson.
Year: 2008
Producers:
- Cambra Moniz-Edwards
When you get rid of things, you never know what you are truly giving up, so keep everything.
Year: 2008
Producers:
- David Green
When spontaneous young sexual drives mingle in the shade of a tree, a unique and mysterious relationship is seeded.
Year: 2008
Producers:
- Lynn Thompson
It's not made of Plexiglass, it's not made of fiberglass, it's not square.
Year: 2008
Producers:
- Julie Caine
- Lisa Morehouse
A satirical collision of Indiana history and standardized testing.
Year: 2008
Producers:
- Zachary Baiel
One teenager changes my perspective about a significant event in labor (and U.S.) history.
Year: 2008
Producers:
- Rehman Tungekar
A lesson on abstinence recorded in a makeshift recording hut in rural Wisconsin.
Year: 2008
Producers:
- Jane Cramer
Montreal's Royal Park is the backdrop to a woman's memories and the place where she is most at home.
Year: 2008
Producers:
- Eva Boodman
"Why we should not imagine a row of sheep at night and why is a coffee tree sometimes like a man?"
Year: 2008
Producers:
- Anastasia Ivanova
Every book seems to be a small universe, every title is like four "visible" percent of this universe.
Year: 2008
Producers:
- Anastasia Ivanova
As Tom recovers from a traumatic brain injury, he and his wife welcome newborn twins into the world.
Year: 2008
Producers:
- Chris Sewell
A herd of marketing hits, cliches and platitudes, featuring a chorus of cats and two pounds of Velveeta.
Year: 2008
Producers:
- Sarah Boothroyd
This piece explores what happens when trailers want to stay put, but condos travel -- removing Austin residents and their beloved trees.
Year: 2008
Producers:
- Sara Robberson
The strange journey of Walt Whitman's brain, both inside his head, and out.
Year: 2008
Producers:
- Kate Daloz
- Michelle Legro
The authors of Trailer Ahoy! and Trees as Good Citizens enjoy a written correspondence relating to their books' proximity in the library.
Year: 2008
Producers:
- Sean Hurley
The planting of a memorial tree reveals a lost story about my grandmother.
Year: 2008
Producers:
- Max Barry
A tired teen talks in the second worst recording device he has.
Year: 2008
Producers:
- Shaun D. Wilson
How do Anglos think black people talk -- and how does that feel?
Year: 2008
Producers:
- Will Wright
When a venerable neighborhood tree is struck down its loss is felt by all the residents on the street, but sometimes nature has its reasons.
Year: 2008
Producers:
- Sarah Bernath
Three children talk of how trees are good control of body and mind, recite poetry about trees, call out tree names, and make all kinds of lovely unexpected connections.
Year: 2008
Producers:
- Alix Blair
Assailed by doubts, fears and illusions on all sides, the warfare within our bodies is a silent one.
Year: 2008
Producers:
- Karen Werner
- Victoria Estok
Joe escapes in his trailer alone but this time he has a visitor.
Year: 2008
Producers:
- Mary Mazurek
A guided meditation spoof for all those searching for enlightenment, but who don't know where to find it.
Year: 2008
Producers:
- Sarah L'Estrange
A surreal tale about book donations, whitefish salad, and trans-atlantic journeys.
Year: 2008
Producers:
- Sarah Yahm
Stories, photos, tape . . . all ways of recording, of trying to preserve, that which is so ephemeral to begin with: our memories.
Year: 2008
Producers:
- David Graham
- Sue Mell
A motorcyclist hits the only tree standing in an otherwise empty field.
Year: 2008
Producers:
- Katie Ball
This piece explores the connections between social justice, activism, and citizenship, and questions the best way to make the world a better place.
Year: 2008
Producers:
- Anna Boiko-Weyrauch
Growing up isn't easy - when you feel as if your mind is one gender, and your body another.
Year: 2008
Producers:
- Tina Antolini
Here's a story along the theme of "ephemera" - things that were not built to be around for long.
Year: 2008
Producers:
- Kathryn Born
Every summer it snows in Moscow -- because of sexually frustrated trees? What do you know about the sexuality of the poplar tree?
Year: 2008
Producers:
- Anastasia Gorokhova
- Daniela Hannemann
- Sasha Fomichev
A History Channel-style short told from the 23rd century.
Year: 2008
Producers:
- Matt Fleeger
A sketch comedy short in the style of my weekly radio show, which features my co-host Bart and me in zany situations.
Year: 2008
Producers:
- Matt Fleeger
"Cicatrix" resonates in regenerative acts, resiliency, rootedness, and irreparably damaged nerves as it tries to imagine one woman's language of war.
Year: 2008
Producers:
- Joan Schuman
A young woman and a married couple look back on trailer-style good times.
Year: 2008
Producers:
- Meagan Perry
A cultural detective searches out a singing stranger and in the process finds out how prayer affects a young man's life.
Year: 2008
Producers:
- Mikkel Nedergaard
The Control of Teenagers dances on the corpse of self-help publishing;
Year: 2008
Producers:
- Michael Hearst
- Rick Moody
Kathleen Goldhar was asked to go out and try on the latest in swimsuit technology: the LZR Racer, made by Speedo, which is VERY form-fitting, and VERY hard to get into.
Year: 2008
Producers:
- Kathleen Goldhar
Whether it's societal progress or a squiggly 11-pound miracle, getting there isn't always pretty.
Year: 2008
Producers:
- Rich Halten
When you are taking risks and you don't know it's risky, and pushing boundaries when you don't know they are boundaries, it's good to be lucky.
Year: 2008
Producers:
- Julia Grant
A record of one of the most significant cultural events of New Zealand's forgotten history.
Year: 2008
Producers:
- Shaun D. Wilson
Here's a radio explanation of the Radio Ephemera ShortDocs Challenge, including descriptions from Rick and Megan Prelinger, of the books selected for the project.
Year: 2008
Producers:
- Julie Shapiro
- Rick and Megan Shaw Prelinger
2008 ShortDocs Winner! The story of a mind on strike.
Year: 2008
Producers:
- Meghan Vigeant
2008 ShortDocs Winner! Where do lost stories go? Potato pancakes are involved.
Year: 2008
Producers:
- David P. Earle
2008 ShortDocs Winner! An audio doodle about this phrase: "Humankind is preceded by forest, and followed by desert." Forest versus city / tree versus car / then versus now.
Year: 2008
Producers:
- Sarah Boothroyd
2008 ShortDocs Winner! The bittersweet fear of watching your child grow up.
Year: 2008
Producers:
- John Biewen
Clapping games and tongue twisters in multiple languages turn into rich stories when Judith Sloan records young immigrants in a theatre workshop.
Year: 2005
Producers:
- Judith Sloan
For one recount lawyer in Florida, the political became personal in the wake of the 2000 presidential election.
Year: 2005
Producers:
- Melissa Allison
In America's high schools, students are playing a game whose only rule is to break the rules.
Year: 2005
Producers:
- Michael Kavanagh
Most Americans have never heard of Go, an ancient board game that has simpler rules than chess but such complex strategy that computers can't even beat a talented amateur.
Year: 2005
Producers:
- Blake Eskin
Here is darkness, construed as manifestations of the color black through history, space, time, and in the natural world.
Year: 2004
Producers:
- Jerome Schmidt
- Rick Moody
Imagine a cold London winter, where the bizarre and unpredictable sounds made by producer Hugh Levinson's sleeping newborn punctuate the dark nights in the most unimaginable ways.
Year: 2004
Producers:
- Hugh Levinson
Some members of Jude Fletcher's family have a fondness for taking pictures of the dead. Their photo albums boast the typical shots of joyous celebrations and family gatherings, side by side with shots of loved ones in their caskets.
Year: 2004
Producers:
- Jude Fletcher
From the moment you enter the restaurant's dining room, you're in complete darkness. Blind waiters take your order, help you find your water glass, and lead you to the bathroom as needed.
Year: 2004
Producers:
- Adam Burke
Misfire is an experimental sound piece that blends 1940s Dr. Pepper radio ads, original violin music, and sounds of thirst and thirst-quenching.
Year: 2003
Producers:
- Paul Frey
- Sarah Varney
As a boy, George Bien was sent thousands of miles away from Hungary to Siberia, to the notorious Gulag - the prison camp system in the Soviet Union, where millions of people perished.
Year: 2003
Producers:
- Alex van Oss
Much of the Sonoran desert between Tucson and Mexico is a haunting wasteland of discarded shoes, shirts, and empty plastic water jugs, discarded by desparate illegal immigrants who risk their lives as they cross the desert from Mexico into the United States in search of better-paying jobs.
Year: 2003
Producers:
- Ann Heppermann
- Kara Oehler
In the late 1930s, Massachusetts flooded four towns in the central part of the state to create a reservoir for the city of Boston. More than 2,000 people lived in those towns.
Year: 2003
Producers:
- Sean Cole
Big House/Disclosure is a multimedia project exploring the legacy of slavery, the genesis of house music, and Chicago's role as the first U.S. city to adopt a Slavery-Era Disclosure Ordinance (which requires companies doing business with the city to reveal if they profited from slavery in the past).
Year: 2007
Producers:
- Mendi and Keith Obadike
Cornelius Zane-Gray is being stalked. His girlfriend left him, a good friend was murdered, and he's recently been assaulted, chased, and nearly blown up. Cornelius's life is falling apart, and what's more, it's all being documented through photos posted on the Internet for everyone to see.
Year: 2009
Producers:
- Lance Dann
Tens of thousands of inmates in American prisons live in total isolation. They don't see anyone. They don't talk to anyone. They are completely alone, sometimes for years, in a cell the size of a small bathroom.
Year: 2009
Producers:
- Claire Schoen
Imagine being so hyperactive and distractible that you can barely keep track of where you are, who you're talking to, and what you're talking about.
Year: 2009
Producers:
- Melanie Harris
The How Are You Doing Project is an interactive audio experiment that invites anyone and everyone to call an anonymous hotline and respond to the most frequently posed question of them all.
Year: 2009
Producers:
- Laura Mayer
In this episode of The Memory Palace, Guglielmo Marconi, the Father of Radio, dreams of a super-radio that would allow him to hear every sound ever made. Melancholy ensues.
Year: 2009
Producers:
- Nate DiMeo
In this episode of The Memory Palace, the passenger pigeon dwindles from five-billion strong in the first quarter of the 19th Century down to one lonely widow in the Cincinnati Zoo in less than a hundred years.
Year: 2009
Producers:
- Nate DiMeo
In this episode of The Memory Palace, the most famous actor in American mounts a comeback after his little brother shoots Abraham Lincoln.
Year: 2009
Producers:
- Nate DiMeo
The National Gallery, London, is one of the world's most prestigious art galleries. Every day, thousands of people pass through its doors to look at masterpieces by Rembrandt, Van Gogh, and many others.
Year: 2009
Producers:
- Cathy FitzGerald
- Neville Edwards
A touching, sound-rich excerpt from a German feature that explores the shifting realities and complicated relationships on the small family farm where producer Julia Schafer was raised.
Year: 2008
Producers:
- Julia Schafer
In the beginning of January 2008, the Belgian-Ghanaian Sugar Jackson defended his European welterweight world title.
Year: 2008
Producers:
- Wim Vangrootloon
The Aftermath, Inc., headquarters is nestled in a strip of ordinary office buildings in the Chicago suburbs, but there's nothing bland about the service the company provides.
Year: 2008
Producers:
- Laura Kwerel
- Nick van der Kolk
When you enter Wellington, Texas, one of the first things you see is a large billboard that says: Welcome to Wellington: Great Past, Bright Future.
Year: 2008
Producers:
- Katherine Wells
When Cedric Chambers and John Gallagher met by chance 45 years ago, neither imagined that they'd be caring for each other into old age.
Year: 2008
Producers:
- Jen Nathan Orris
The American "obesity epidemic" has been all over the news -– from stories about the viability of the Atkins diet to tabloid profiles of 100-pound toddlers.
Year: 2008
Producers:
- Sarah Yahm
A patient, blinded in an accident, wakes to another day of darkness. Resolved to sidestep the persistent murk of her obscured vision, she turns instead to the world of her imagination and memory, where the everyday patterns of human routine take on a new significance.
Year: 2008
Producers:
- Melanie Wilson
Musician Charles Spearin lives with his family in a lively neighborhood in downtown Toronto. A year ago, Charles decided to invite neighbors and friends over to conduct interviews loosely based around the topic of happiness.
Year: 2009
Producers:
- Charles Spearin
Child soldiers in the Democratic Republic of Congo lead grim lives -- they're forcibly recruited to serve with government forces or rebel troops in a long and bloody civil conflict that's ravaged the region for years.
Year: 2009
Producers:
- Samite Mulondo
- Steve McNally
Siler City, North Carolina, used to be a typical small southern town: lots of families had roots going back a century or two and its citizens were proud of the town's close-knit culture and neighborly feel.
Year: 2008
Producers:
- John Biewen
- Tennessee Watson
The T-shirt is a staple of the American wardrobe, worn by pretty much everyone at one time or another. It's a common denominator in a culture marked by differences. But while it's cheap and easy to make, the humble T-shirt shouldn't be underestimated.
Year: 2008
Producers:
- Jacob Fenston
In the late 1950s, folk musicians Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger and BBC radio producer Charles Parker joined forces on a radio endeavor unlike anything the BBC (or the world, for that matter) had heard before.
Year: 2008
Producers:
- Sara Parker
Jonathan Goldstein's got a knack for exploring life's great (and simple) mysteries via the telephone.
Year: 2008
Producers:
- Jonathan Goldstein
Jonathan Goldstein's got a knack for exploring life's great (and simple) mysteries via the telephone.
Year: 2007
Producers:
- Jonathan Goldstein
Before Billy Graham, Jim Bakker, or even Bob Jones took to the airwaves, the first media evangelist in this country was a woman -- Sister Aimee Semple McPherson.
Year: 1999
Producers:
- Art Silverman
- Deborah George
Award-winning producer Curtis Fox has covered arts and culture for many years, first for public radio, and more recently as a full-time podcaster.
Year: 2008
Producers:
- Curtis Fox
This is an excerpt from Curtis Fox's portrait of Walt Whitman, one of the world's greatest poets, and his radical vision of America.
Year: 2005
Producers:
- Curtis Fox
You know how sometimes you just can't get a song out of your head? Radio producer Richie Beirne can sympathize.
Year: 2008
Producers:
- Richie Beirne
Here's a love story that stretches across two decades, thousands of miles, and an international border. Rocio and Francisco are married but have kept their family together by living apart for the past 19 years.
Year: 2007
Producers:
- Catrin Einhorn
- Linda Lutton
Eighty-two-year-old Daphne Reed is married to and madly in love with a man 30 years her juinor. She's been thinking a lot about death recently, and about the future years her husband will likely spend without her.
Year: 2007
Producers:
- Nora Harrington
Searching for your ideal partner can be exhausting, even with the help of personal ads.
Year: 2007
Producers:
- Inge Hoonte
A revealing reflection on journalism, which is a process of editing and selecting, rather than transmitting a complete record to the public.
Year: 2007
Producers:
- Sarah Boothroyd
Epic, Painful, Long, Scary is the story of 19-year-old African-Australian twins. The twins hardly remember their mother and father, who both died from AIDS-related illnesses when the boys were just toddlers.
Year: 2006
Producers:
- Julie Kimberly
Summer sleepover camp means more than mosquito bites, sunburn, twig art, and bonfire gatherings. Camp offers many kids their first taste of independence -- which can be equal-parts blissful and terrifying.
Year: 2007
Producers:
- Lisbeth Koerner
- Rikke Houd
- Sabine Hviid
Two friends sit on a dock, meandering through a variety of ocean stories (some true and some not):
Year: 2007
Producers:
- Keith Talbot
- Larry Massett
Hot dogs are a classic American food. But when is a hot dog more than just a hot dog? When it's a neighborhood mainstay, through years of change.
Year: 2003
Producers:
- Peter Thomson
Bouffants, buzz cuts, mohawks, and dreadlocks: no matter the style, hair has played an important social and cultural role throughout human history.
Year: 2006
Producers:
- Mark Vernon
- Zoe Irvine
Carlos Maeda and his quartet struggle with "El Gato Montes" in after-school rehearsals. Produced by Maeda for Curie Youth Radio.
Year: 2006
Producers:
- Curie Youth Radio
Excerpts from the diary of a girl who insists that self-mutilation is saving her life. Produced by April Winbun for Curie Youth Radio.
Year: 2006
Producers:
- Curie Youth Radio
A collage of love notes, tardy slips, and other high school detritus collected from high school garbage cans. Produced by Geraldo Hernandez and Giancarlo Hernandez for Curie Youth Radio.
Year: 2005
Producers:
- Curie Youth Radio
What is it about train travel that inspires music and memory? And why do people tend to confess their innermost thoughts once they get on board?
Year: 2006
Producers:
- Sandy Thacker
- Steve Wadhams
In September, 2002, three years before Katrina devastated America's gulf coast, veteran NPR reporter Daniel Zwerdling investigated what would happen to New Orleans if it fell in the path of a Category 5 hurricane.
Year: 2002
Producers:
- Daniel Zwerdling
Canadian musician Leonard Cohen insists he hardly remembers anything from his past and that he lives mostly in the present.
Year: 2006
Producers:
- Kari Hesthamar
Many people look to the natural world for clues about living a more harmonious life. For example, we aspire to traits we associate with certain animals: the wisdom of the owl, the noble bearing of the bald eagle, or the grace of the swan.
Year: 2005
Producers:
- Guy Hand
Merry-go-rounds often reside deep in our memories, conjuring childhood and the magical ability to be carried far away in the blink of an eye or the spin of a carousel.
Year: 2006
Producers:
- Kaye Mortley
The world makes its own music, but we rarely listen with fresh ears says Aaron Ximm, sound artist, field recordist and founder of quietamerican.org.
Year: 2005
Producers:
- Aaron Ximm
The day Thelon Oeming moved into an apartment in a working class area of Toronto, he saw a hunched-back man shouting to himself in the middle of the street.
Year: 2006
Producers:
- Steve Wadhams
- Thelon Oeming
Two years ago a group of Mongolian herdsmen and musicians traveled to Elko, Nevada, to participate in the National Cowboy Poetry Gathering.
Year: 2006
Producers:
- Hal Cannon
- Taki Telonidis
Can you remember the sound of voices from the past, even of a close family member?
Year: 2005
Producers:
- Pat Donnez
- Wim Vangrootloon
Originally a text by French writer Marguerite Duras, India Song was next made into an extensive radio program and eventually a film of the same title.
Year: 2005
Producers:
- Georges Peyrou
- Marguerite Duras
Japanese springtime: the motif of countless haikus and soulful pop songs, spectacular kabuki and elegant Noh plays, short stories, and novels. In Japan, spring begins in winter -- with a lot of noise.
Year: 2005
Producers:
- Barbara Entrup
- Malte Jaspersen
The shopping mall is a cultural and commercial phenomenon in America that most can relate to in some way or another.
Year: 2005
Producers:
- Jonathan Mitchell
Australian anthropologist, botanist, and eccentric Olive Pink waged a 40-year, one-woman civil rights campaign on behalf of the Aboriginal peoples until her death in 1975.
Year: 2005
Producers:
- Hollis Taylor
- Jane Ulman
Ten years ago, the people of Lubec, Maine, were met with an unpleasant surprise: an enormous finback whale had washed onto the beachfront of their tiny coastal town.
Year: 2005
Producers:
- Molly Menschel
A few years ago, Mark Vernon bought a pile of old reel-to-reel audio tapes at a boot sale (think yard sale, but in the trunks of cars) near his hometown of Derby, England.
Year: 2002
Producers:
- Mark Vernon
Five alarmingly self-aware people meet on the phone for an hour each week to talk about their lives and their goals.
Year: 2005
Producers:
- Eurydice Aroney
Meet Floyd (not his real name), a self-described "cigarette hustler" and part of Chicago's thriving underground economy, where goods and services -- legal and illegal -- are sold under the radar.
Year: 2005
Producers:
- Ann Heppermann
- Kara Oehler
It was the closest thing to Muzak in Russia. This is the story of the rise, fall, and sudden resurgence of the music that dominated television and radio airwaves and whose spacey sounds made it the favorite of the USSR's cosmonauts.
Year: 2004
Producers:
- Charles Maynes
When her husband brings two puppies home, producer Lea Redfern becomes completely immersed in the world of canines. Now dog culture pervades her every waking moment, from commanding her social life to steering her personal politics.
Year: 2004
Producers:
- Lea Redfern
Wired with a low-fi tape recorder, performance artist Damali Ayo visited hardware stores and asked employees to mix paint to match different parts of her body.
Year: 2004
Producers:
- Damali Ayo
- Dmae Roberts
Thirty years ago no one believed that the psychological problems suffered by Vietnam soldiers were caused by their service in the war.
Year: 2004
Producers:
- Alix Spiegel
Matthew Power first met poet Allen Ginsberg at his cousin's Bar Mitzvah, when he was a 15-year-old aspiring writer.
Year: 2004
Producers:
- Dean Olsher
- Emily Botein
- Matthew Power
Ken Nordine wonders if the warning pamphlets included with many powerful prescriptions may cause some of us to suffer mild paranoia.
Year: 2004
Producers:
- Ken Nordine
After a teenager was killed near San Francisco for having a different biological gender from the one she expressed, some local middle-schoolers wanted to know why. What is gender, anyway?
Year: 2004
Producers:
- outLoud Radio
Dia Fallana is a young transgender woman living in a depressed area of Oakland, California. In this radio essay, she explains how her mother's anti-gay attitude kept her in the closet -- until she was forced to tell the truth.
Year: 2004
Producers:
- outLoud Radio
When Youth Radio reporters in Oakland, CA, spoke with their friends returning home from Iraq, they realized that the public wasn't hearing the perspectives of these young soldiers.
Year: 2004
Producers:
- Youth Radio
When Youth Radio reporters in Oakland, CA, spoke with their friends returning home from Iraq, they realized that the public wasn't hearing the perspectives of these young soldiers.
Year: 2004
Producers:
- Belia Mayeno Choy
On the occasion of the tenth anniversary of South Africa's first democratic election, Radio Diaries produced this five-part series featuring newly discovered archival tape of Nelson Mandela, his supporters, and detractors.
Year: 2005
Producers:
- Ben Shapiro
- Joe Richman
- Sue Jaye Johnson
This is a playful exploration of Nicholas Longstaff's first forays into the world of relationships, documenting the semantics of falling in and out of love.
Year: 2004
Producers:
- Nicholas Longstaff
Sound artist Sylvi MacCormac tells this story about coming home by train along the Canadian Railway Lines.
Year: 2004
Producers:
- Sylvi MacCormack
Chandra Bulucon, sole proprietor of Puppy Machine Productions, recorded a 45-minute phone conversation she had with a friend about her relationship to radio.
Year: 2004
Producers:
- Chandra Bulucon
Could The Star Spangled Banner be recast as a drinking song? Holger Mohaupt suggests that in this family, it could.
Year: 2004
Producers:
- Holger Mohaupt
Filmmaker Tony Hill takes his blind friend to a mystery location, where she discovers her whereabouts solely through her sense of touch.
Year: 2004
Producers:
- Tony Hill
Filmmaker Adam Clitheroe playfully puts forth an audio portrait of a traditional woodsman . . . equipped with a cell phone.
Year: 2004
Producers:
- Adam Clitheroe
This Radio New Zealand documentary explores the construction of the world of The Lord of the Rings through the eyes of the New Zealanders whose "good old kiwi ingenuity" on the film set brought Middle Earth to life.
Year: 2003
Producers:
- Camilla Maling
One evening in 1994, four women came together for a feast. They had never met one another before. As far as anybody knew, they only had one thing in common: they were all obese.
Year: 2003
Producers:
- Lorelei Harris
America's history is rich with the stories of antagonistic coal strikes, but the Herrin Massacre of 1922 is a particularly distressing event that resulted in the deaths of nearly two dozen strike-breakers.
Year: 2003
Producers:
- Gary Covino
As producer Rachel Bryant researched seabirds in the remote arctic wilderness of Southampton Island, Nunavut, she began thinking about issues of survival and vulnerability.
Year: 2003
Producers:
- Rachel Bryant
After the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, Americans of Japanese ancestry were subjected to racial hatred, distrust, and incarceration.
Year: 2003
Producers:
- Rob Mikuriya
Youth Radio producers Ise Lyfe, Gerald Ward II, and Bianca Yarborough chronicle the tense summer of 2002 in Oakland, California, when an alarming number of youth homicides weighed heavily on the community.
Year: 2003
Producers:
- Youth Radio
Sound designer and multimedia artist Ben Rubin employs the cacophony of the New York Mercantile Exchange to create a musical piece commemorating the reopening of the World Financial Center's Winter Garden, which was closed after the events of September 11th.
Year: 2003
Producers:
- Ben Rubin
Endings in radio used to serve a purpose: they used to signal to a live audience that the time to applaud was near. But this has changed now, prompting Sara Fishko to take a look at the outdated "ending" and to piece together some favorite final moments for a Big Finish.
Year: 1999
Producers:
- Sara Fishko
The historical saga of the song The House I Live In is a study in changing times, changing values, and fickle politics.
Year: 2003
Producers:
- Sara Fishko
Film sound designer Steve Boeddeker demonstrates how sound can be used to enhance the emotional impact of a scene.
Year: 2002
Producers:
- Jonathan Mitchell
Ray Matterson spent the first year of his seven and a half-year jail term feeling angry at the world. Then he found a kind of redemption -- in a pair of socks.
Year: 2003
Producers:
- Jonathan Mitchell
As a young boy, Earle Reynolds had a dream to build and sail a boat around the world.
Year: 2003
Producers:
- Stephen Erickson
In this short radio play, the consequences of living life in a tinderbox are revealed through a series of scenes taking place within their various rooms.
Year: 2003
Producers:
- Susan Stone
A deaf-mute, lovelorn waitress has written a friend of her fractured heart. It's a garbled world in which Ruby spins between love, lust, and a bus ticket to California.
Year: 2003
Producers:
- Susan Stone
San Francisco luminary and famed poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti takes listeners on a freewheeling tour of his neighborhood haunts in San Francisco's Chinatown and North Beach.
Year: 2003
Producers:
- Jim McKee
A series of interconnected stories by A. H. Weatherman about the trauma of growing up in the south and participating in beauty pageants.
Year: 2003
Producers:
- Roman Mars
Based on a short story by Drury Pifer, Object Piece is the story of a man digging his own grave after he loses his wife to a friend.
Year: 1976
Producers:
- Randy Thom
What is a fanatic reactionary pedestrian? How does one get to be this way?
Year: 2002
Producers:
- Abner Serd
Ruth Ellis lived to be over 100 years old. She realized in her teens that she was gay but she didn't talk much about it then.
Year: 2002
Producers:
- Neenah Ellis
From summer camp woes to blissful recognitions of womanhood, this feature on menstruation explores what it's really like to "become a woman."
Year: 2002
Producers:
- Arielle Adams
Hollister is an investigation into what really happened on July 4, 1947, when 2,000 bikers roared into a small California town and left a media explosion in their wake.
Year: 2002
Producers:
- Helen Borten
In a blending of both drama and documentary, three bereaved women talk about their real experiences of loss and how they've tried to move forward with their lives. In a parallel drama, their loved ones meet on a beach in "the hinterland," somewhere between life and death.
Year: 1996
Producers:
- Sara Conkey
Dmae Roberts tell two interwoven stories in this personal documentary: the frustration she feels not living up to her mother's ideal of a perfect Taiwanese daughter and the compassion she has for a mother who as a child suffered abuse, starvation, and the horrors of World War Two.
Year: 2002
Producers:
- Dmae Roberts
Many people know of pianist Glenn Gould's unique and somewhat maverick contributions to the classical music world.
Year: 2002
Producers:
- Glenn Gould
"Without bread we are all orphans," says the sign that greets customers as they walk into Steve's Bread Shop in Portland, Maine. Meet Steve, who bakes bread in the most traditional way possible: by hand.
Year: 2002
Producers:
- David Welch
Eighteen-year-old Hannah Hoose describes growing up as a part of her family's folk band, with all its healthy snacks, archetypal psychodramas, and oddly compelling songs.
Year: 2002
Producers:
- Joni Murphy
When you stroll through the maze of streets in Fez, Morocco, it's as if you are walking back in time.
Year: 2002
Producers:
- Jim Metzner
A huge Peggy Lee fan, producer Karen Michel has produced five features about this singer, songwriter, and arranger.
Year: 2002
Producers:
- Karen Michel
Producer Gwen Macsai was 31 when, for the second time in her life, she was subjected to that ubiquitous teenage torture device . . . the dental retainer.
Year: 1993
Producers:
- Gwen Macsai
- Taki Telonidis
A heroin overdose left Jade Bell blind, mute and unable to care for himself. Now Bell tours high schools in British Columbia, where his computerized "voice" speaks a loud warning to thousands of students.
Year: 2002
Producers:
- Anne Penman
- Trisha Wilson
Desperate to learn the language, Japanese schools, businesses, and government agencies offer small fortunes to just about anyone who can help teach English.
Year: 2000
Producers:
- Robin Hilton
Mucho Corazon tells the story of Leon Perlee, who builds and restores antique street organs in Holland's oldest surviving street organ business, and Milades Sosa, who works at a Cuban organ factory.
Year: 2001
Producers:
- Chris Brookes
- Michele Ernsting
The first Johnny Rockets opened in 1986 on Melrose Avenue in Los Angeles, a concept restaurant embodying the epitome of retro culture.
Year: 2001
Producers:
- Paul McCarthy
In the 1930's, the Great Depression and Dust Bowl drove farmers and their families from the central states to California.
Year: 2001
Producers:
- Barrett Golding
This documentary, part of a series called America's Women: A Legacy of Change, examines how women's lives have changed since they won the vote in 1920s, focusing on the period from World War II through the 1950s.
Year: 2001
Producers:
- Doug Partusch
- Sandra Sleight-Brennan
This story brings together a young Toronto composer, Adam Goddard, whose passion is music, and his 90-year-old grandfather, Henry Haws, whose passion is farming.
Year: 2001
Producers:
- Adam Goddard
- Steve Wadhams
In this nostalgic documentary, tag along with Tupperware dealer Lucky Laurel into the world of Tupperware conventions, regional meetings, and of course, those signature Tupperware parties.
Year: 2001
Producers:
- The Kitchen Sisters
In Scott Carrier's family, learning to swim means spending a few weeks at Al and Betty Switzer's Aquatic School in Center Sandwich, New Hampshire.
Year: 1996
Producers:
- Scott Carrier
Tripura and Om took temporary vows of silence when they first met almost 20 years ago. Joan Schuman produced this sound portrait of their experience by weaving together their vocal memories with an ambient narrative of chalk scratching on slate.
Year: 2001
Producers:
- Joan Schuman
Karla Saavedra, 17, moved to Brooklyn's Bushwick neighborhood from Mexico two years ago.
Year: 2000
Producers:
- WNYC's Radio Rookies
Predrag Bundalo was a Serbian fighter in Sarajevo, who everyone called by his nickname, "Gaga." On the eve of his 36th birthday, Gaga stopped to visit an elderly Muslim woman in her apartment.
Year: 2001
Producers:
- Michael Montgomery
- Stephen Smith
Throughout the long illness at the end of his life, fllmmaker Derek Jarman put an extraordinary amount of passion and physical labor into his uniqe and rugged garden.
Year: 2001
Producers:
- Sherre DeLys
Here's an audio homage on three levels: first, to James Agee's poetic memoir of the sounds and smells of Knoxville, Tennessee in the summer of 1915, shortly before his father died; secondly, to Samuel Barber's 1947 orchestral setting of Agee's text for the soprano Eleanor Steber; and finally to the modern city of Knoxville.
Year: 1995
Producers:
- Alan Hall
Katie Davis takes along her microphone when she is drafted to "coach" a high school basketball team in her neighborhood, allowing us to listen in as she stumbles through the season.
Year: 1999
Producers:
- Katie Davis
You might recognize Andrei Codrescu's voice from his insightful commentaries on NPR, but Codrescu has also brought his unique perspective on American culture to the silver screen, via the movie Road Scholar.
Year: 2001
Producers:
- Andrei Codrescu